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I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I am doing what I do best.

Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

There is nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, Uh, my house. It is more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

I am into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Food is a coping mechanism people are afraid of giving it up because then they will feel confused and lost.

I love South American food, and I have not really been down there. I really need a vacation.

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I am really anal about it, actually.

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that is out of this world. I will give a heads-up to all of your readers that it Does not have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they do not see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

I hid myself in food.

But I do not begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it is just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

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!

It is fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there is never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I do not think about where I am from.