I Am Happiest When I Am With

If You're Going To Buy Pasta, You Should Buy Dry Pasta. If You're Going To Make It You Can Make The Real Thing, But You Shouldn't Buy Fresh Pasta.

I Can Tell In Two Minutes If I Should Hire Someone In The Kitchen. Two Minutes. It's His Desire. It's That Open-eyed, Attentive Expression. If He Doesn't Have It ... I Mean, I Can Teach A Chimp How To Cook Dinner. But I Cannot Teach A Chimp How To Love It.

My Favorite Thing Is Always A Nice, Inexpensive Draft Beer, But If Someone Wants Something A Little More Complicated Than That, Then I'd Like A Michelada, Which Is Where I Take Beer And A Little Bit Of Either A Spicy Or Not-so-spicy Bloody Mary, Mix It Like Six To One [ratio], So It's Kind Of A Red Beer.

You Have To Live Life To Its Full Chorizo.

I've Been Lucky Enough In 20 Years In The Media To Have A Nice Soap Box That Put Me In A Position To Describe To An American Viewership That Tuscany Is Different From Umbria, And It's Different From Emilia-romagna And, Not That That Was News, But It Was Never Presented To Them In A Way That Was, "hey, Look. This Is A Different Plate From That Different Place." And Although We All Think Of "spaghetti, Lasagna, Ciao," As What Italy Is All About, There's All Of This Great Stuff... I Was Merely An Interpreter. I Wasn't The Developer Of The Content.