The great thing about living today is that there is this thing called the Interweb, and you can just look up anything.

I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.

People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

Even the fried chicken is great cold.

Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.

I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.