I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I’d have to put back the Charmin. We still don’t have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled ‘day off,’ I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don’t relax well.

That’s a horrible thought. I guess cheese or wine. I think I might be too depressed to eat if I had to eat only one thing for the rest of my life.

Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis – they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!

I’ve also learned that you can’t be all things to all people. Whatever it is that you’re successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal.

Whatever it is that you’re successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal. In my case, it’s accessibility. So all of my products have to be usable, accessible, affordable.

I do sit-ups and push-ups at home, and that’s about it. I have a gym card, but I never go there. It’s a front. I pay for the membership every couple of years, thinking I’ll be embarrassed enough to go. But every time I go, there’s like people twice my age that look twice as good!

I don’t have to write jokes. I don’t have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.

Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet – the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

I don’t categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.