I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.

I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.