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I mean I want people to enjoy their dinner, but I just love the process so much.
I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
I know that the single guys on the cast (which is everybody but me), hmm, well a lot more people flirt with you when you're on TV.
I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
I first got into food with my mother, just Southern cooking, really bad for you food (just delicious!) because I'm the first Yankee in my family, and everyone else was from the South.
I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
I am much more interested in the process than results.
However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.
But, probably my favorite food interview was with Mario Batali, because I have never met anybody who was more instantly media savvy and more helpful than he was.
Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
Baking is problematic for me because I usually drink a lot of wine when I cook!
A friend of a friend has an aunty who lives in southern Illinois, she's in her 60's, and it's totally conservative middle-America. She has a group of ladies her age that get together every Tuesday to watch Queer Eye.
You cannot travel within and stand still without.
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
We do not attract what we want, but what we are.
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.