I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.

Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.

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.

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've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman.

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

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...