I like to create what I call 'tablescapes.' It's so much more fun when you organize your table around a theme, don't you think?

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

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

I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.