I do not enjoy good food. I do not enjoy flashy cars. I do not care if I live in a dump. I do not enjoy good clothes. This is the best I have dressed in months.

It is all about who's where on the food chain. When I am the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I am working for another editor, I am obliged to follow their vision.

I moved to New York last year and I love it. It is a huge change and I have always wanted to spend time there. It is like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.

And I think of that again as I have written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that was not - did not have a lot of food.

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it is just as fast.

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.

When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there is something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, How'd you like to be on TV? Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a Ready, Set, Cook with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I am looking for something different. A lot of chefs cookbooks are food as it is done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.

It is fun to pick a cuisine and say I am going to research Ethiopian food, and see what it is all about. You find that there are a lot of similarities in cuisines from around the world and a lot of similar flavors.

We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We do not buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.