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

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

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

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 had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.' When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.

If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.

I always buy the smaller turkeys. On the pre-baste put pats of butter on the meat under the skin, put the skin back on, put a bunch of seasoning on the top, call it a day, put it in the oven. With a 10 - 12 pound turkey you are done in a couple of hours.