Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

Don't you just love the idea of cooking flowers? I imagine them bursting into bloom, right in the pan.

While cooking demands your entire attention, it also rewards you with endlessly sensual pleasures... The seductive softness of chocolate beginning to melt from solid to liquid. The tug of sauce against the spoon when it thickens in teh pan, and the lovely lightness of Parmesan drifting from the grater in gossamer flakes. Time slows down in teh kitchen, offering up an entire universe of small satisfactions.

For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well.

The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.

We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.