You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.

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

I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

Each city has its own culinary landscape.