I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.
My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place.
When I step into the kitchen in the morning, I go for the scrambled eggs with pine nuts and minced lamb. When I finish at night, it is hard to resist the burger.
If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.
The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
I constantly want to know - what is a table, or what is a cat?
Farm to table is a personal choice.
What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.
Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with.
Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.
I was expected to sit at the table, learn how to eat properly.
Is the church really demonstrating the new life in Christ if there is no discipline, if there is no fencing in of the Lord's table, no demand for purity of life?
I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.
Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
Where I'd like to see more women is at the executive table.
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.
Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
