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I Think That There Is Philanthropy And There Is Publicity. If You Can Marry The Two To Do Something Good, Then I Think It's Great. Some Of The Other Guys Go Around And Slag People As A Profession. That's Not So Interesting To Me, Because It's Easy To Take Down, It's Harder To Build.

I've Been Lucky Enough In 20 Years In The Media To Have A Nice Soap Box That Put Me In A Position To Describe To An American Viewership That Tuscany Is Different From Umbria, And It's Different From Emilia-romagna And, Not That That Was News, But It Was Never Presented To Them In A Way That Was, "hey, Look. This Is A Different Plate From That Different Place." And Although We All Think Of "spaghetti, Lasagna, Ciao," As What Italy Is All About, There's All Of This Great Stuff... I Was Merely An Interpreter. I Wasn't The Developer Of The Content.

As Far Away As You Can Get From The Process Of Mechanisms And Machinery, The More Likely Your Food's Going To Taste Good. And That - That Is Probably The Largest Thing I Can Hand To Anybody Is Let Your Hands Touch It. Let Them Make It.

When You Use It In Cooked Foods, It Changes [the Tabasco Flavor] A Little Bit; It Loses A Little Bit Of The Bright Acid That You Love On It, But You Get That More Cooked Heat And Chile Flavor Down.

The Tradition Of Italian Cooking Is That Of The Matriarch. This Is The Cooking Of Grandma. She Didn't Waste Time Thinking Too Much About The Celery. She Got The Best Celery She Could And Then She Dealt With It.