The Food Network and the Cooking Channel have so many viewers. And, because there's no violence, some of that audience is children. So, I think we have a responsibility to educate parents how to produce healthy meals for their families.

I believe in national service, I believe that every young adult citizen should do two years of national service. Not necessarily to be deployed, but to understand teamwork, responsibility and mixing with different people.

I had written two cookbooks, and they had done well, but I wanted to move to fitness, because it's big with me.

I found that most people who buy restaurants should never have done it, because they don't understand money.

The sharing of food is like breaking bread, it's very symbolic.

I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours - I'm a big guy. I always carry a fork, little bottles of spices, and Sriracha. I eat what I feel like eating.

America was built on immigrants, and what they bring 'to the table.'