I will eat anything, at least once. For better or worse.

If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.

If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.

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