I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.