"There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents."

"The most luxurious thing to me is having an hour of my day, which rarely happens, to listen to my iPod and sit on my couch. That's how I unwind."

"A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing."

"Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important."

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

"If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is."

"I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore."

"It is a timeless truth that a life well-lived leaves an aroma of kindness long after the sun has set."