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.

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

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

Most of cooking is the labor of chopping. Give yourself a break. Pretend you're on a cooking show and have all your ingredients lined up for you.

I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

I have a great career, and I have my daughter. Sio what I don't have is not as important to as what I do have.

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