I Truly Have A Love-hate Thing With

I'd Love To Give My Girls A Traditional Thanksgiving With Turkey And All That Jazz, But We've Raised Them To Love Tuscan Food So Much That They Don't Care For It. My Favorite Is A Nice Polenta With Beef Stew And Broccoli Rabe On The Side.

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.

I Started Doing Makeup To Make A Living. Then I Said, You're Not Supposed To Be Putting Powder On Other People. You're Supposed To Be Powdering Yourself.

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.

I Live In Italy Part Time, And They're Obsessed With What's Happening In La Too. They Make Fun Of Americans, But The World Wants To Know What's Going On In Hollywood.