I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.
There is a diversity of thought and philosophy, diversity of languages and dialects, diversity of political spectrum, and there's a diversity of taste for food. I don't label or characterize Jews in any way.
I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.
As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.
I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.
Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.
In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.
But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.
Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.
My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
My mother is a tall woman - as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922.
You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.
In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.
There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.
Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.
