Each city has its own culinary landscape.

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.

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.

In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.