When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.
I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." -Mother Teresa
There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.
I'm a director, but I gotta have the hair, the makeup and the heels. My mother would be appalled if I didn't dress up.
Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.
The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.
Far from being entirely dependent on exogenous food sources of antioxidants, our cells have their own innate ability to generate antioxidants upon demand.
It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.
The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth, or the motion of heavenly bodies, or the sequence of the seasons, or man's need of food and water, or the function of the heart.
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.
Maybe I wouldn't hit three fast food restaurants in a day, but I could hit one in a day. I try not to do that.
Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books.
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.
