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I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.

My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

I'm a professional food eater.

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.