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

Decide which you want to play up: your clothing or your jewelry, but not both. Let one be the star and one the supporting player.

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.

Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.

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

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 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.