I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.

Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.

A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.

I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.

Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.