Debi Mazar Quotes

Thanksgiving Was Always A Favorite Holiday For Me. The Preparation Was Fun! My Grandma And I Would Walk To The Butcher On Jamaica Avenue In Queens, Order The Bird, And Buy All The Fixings At The Market.

Usually I Wear My Grandma's Old Aprons, Or Others I Have Collected In My Travels. When I Was Young, I Would Sit And Watch My Grandma Prepare Stuff. She Wasn't Italian, But She Did Really Good Italian Food.

Desmo Is My Guard Dog, But He Has A Sweet Side, Too. Nothing Entertains Him (or Me) More Than When I Blow Bubbles And He Can Chase Them.

I've Always Been A Foodie. My Grandmother Got Me Hooked On Cooking.

I Think That My Interpretation Of Italian Was A Lot More Southern Than What My Husband Cooks. You Know, I Grew Up In Queens And In Brooklyn, And We - Really, It's More Southern. It's Naples And Sicily. It's Heavier. It's Over-spiced. And Like Most Americans, I Thought Spaghetti And Meatballs Was Genius.

As A Matter Of Fact, I've Been To Italy Many Times Before I Met My Husband, Which He Can't Even Imagine That I Could Possibly Know Anything About Italian Food. But, You Know, Italian Food's Really Basic, And There's So Many Different Variations On It That What My Husband Did Is He Broke It Down For Me.

Well, You Know, I Have Always Had An Issue With The Whole Weight Thing With People In General Because I Happen To Love How Big Women Look. I Mean, It's All A Perspective. It's All An Opinion, And I Think Sort Of The Rubenesque, Voluptuous Body Is A Lot Sexier Than The Boney Bag Of Bones With Fake Everything.

I Used To Watch My Grandmother Make Fancy, Julia Child-style Beef Bourguignon. And Growing Up In New York City, I Was Exposed To Many Cultures. I Experimented With Puerto Rican And Jamaican Food.

I Wanted To Come Up With A Hybrid Show Of Sorts That Wasn't Your Traditional 'dump And Stir' Type Of Cooking Show.

I Grew Up On Food Stamps. I Come From A Very Humble Background. And I've Had Many Friends That Have Been Destitute - You Know, Running Into Trouble - And Places Like The Midnight Mission Have Given Them Hope And Have Fed Them And Gotten Them Back On The Right Path.

When You Come Into Our House, You Get A Flavor For Our Life, Our Travels, Our Kids, Our 18-year-old Poodle Who Is Like, Blind, Deaf And Incontinent But So Happy.

When My Mother Was Raising Me, She Moved Us Upstate To The Woodstock Area. Our Closest Neighbor Was A Mile Away. She Planted All Her Own Vegetables.