I've never been anything than a blond my whole life. There was one time when I dyed the ends pink. My father said if I ever did that again, he'd shave my head and keep me home 'til it grew back.

Growing up, we always had a big garden, and it just gave me the passion and appreciation for really good food.

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

I love hot dogs.

If you want to be a home cook, just have fun with it. Pick up a couple cookbooks. You're gonna make some mistakes; just go in and try it.

I started waiting tables in college and realized how much I loved the business and loved to cook. I decided to go to culinary school and never looked back.

If I'm having a party, the easiest and the biggest thing for me to make is a big pot of meatballs.

It's a life choice to be a girl chef, as it is to be a boy chef. It feels pretty natural to me. It's a full-time, full-scale, full physical job, and a lot of times, it can take the place of kids and family. To be in this career is much more difficult for a woman to have a family, marriage - whatever that means. It's not a 9-5 job.

I'm always a big fan of a big pot of chicken soup. I like to make a big pot of that, and I keep it in my freezer so when I come off the road and I just want to sit in my pajamas on my couch and catch up on the DVR and dig into a nice big bowl of chicken soup. It feeds my soul.

You don't go into being a chef for the money.