“It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.”

“Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.”

“I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.”

“I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.”

“Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.”

“I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.”

“Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.”

“My gosh, I love food. If I wasn't an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.”

“Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.”