When You Use Tabasco In The Marinade,

I Obsess Everyday About Everything. Not Only About What We Do Well But What We Can Do Better... In The End, The Only Reason I Am Motivated To Do What I Do Is For The Hedonistic Pleasures Of The Table.

I Just Signed To Do My Next Book With Ecco Press, A New Primer Or Encyclopedia. This Will Be My Take On What Classic Italian Cooking Is.

What Will Always Remain Is Love, Passion And Family Time.

The Idea Of Having Dinner Together Every Day With Your Family Removes The Pressure From Trying To Explain Everything. You Tell Us The Good Parts About Your Day, But You Also Tell Us The Bad Parts About Your Day. And At The End Of That, Because You're In A Ritual, You Remove The Pressure Of Admitting You Had A Failure That Day. And It Also Takes The Wind Out Of Having A Great Day. I Mean, It Makes You A Little Bit More Normal All The Time. That Moment Of Therapeutic Sharing Is Something That Happens In Food, That Doesn't Necessarily Happen When You're Watching Tv.

Cookbooks Have All Become Baroque And Very Predictable. I'm Looking For Something Different. A Lot Of Chefs' Cookbooks Are Food As It's Done In The Restaurants, But They Are Dumbed Down, And I Hate It When They Dumb Them Down.