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If You Want Your Kids To Listen To You, Don't Yell At Them. Whisper. Make Them Lean In. My Kids Taught Me That. And I Do It With Adults Now.

If You Could Learn How To Make A Perfect Lemon Tart Then You Got A Story. If You Don't Feel Like That, Make A Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie, But Have Five Go-to Dishes Like That And You Can Move Them Around, Change Them Up Just A Little Bit, And Always Have Something In The Can.

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.

In Case You're Wondering Why Guy Fieri Is Here, He Won A Contest.

Larousse Gastronomique Is A Veritable Dictionary Of Cooking Terms For The French Kitchen. If A Chef Were Allowed Only One Book, This Would Have To Be It.