I'm a sucker for fried chicken - I really love it.

There are two schools of fried chicken. One is brining in salted water and the other is soaking in either buttermilk or milk. I just combine the two.

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.

In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.