Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.

Different types of chicken come at different price points. Filets are going to be more expensive. If it's bone-in and skin-on it's going to be less expensive.

When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.

I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue with cleanliness, but to me it's just so pretty.

My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from.