I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.

North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.

You don’t have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I’d pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.

You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.

Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.

I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.