I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.

I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.

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

Don't use a different dish for every single ingredient. If you've got three ingredients that go in at the same time, put them all in the same plate. That way you have just one plate to dump in.

Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.