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

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.

If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.

Even the fried chicken is great cold.

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

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.

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.