The most essential part of my day is a proper dinner.

Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.

Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!

I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.