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I love celery and people don't use it a lot. Celery and flavors in that family - it really brightens and is refreshing.

Every year, my father comes by and samples the chremslach - like quality control - and tells me how they taste just like his mother's.

If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.

My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

If I read the small print, and I see that what I love to taste has pantonaponamene or fake smeinlioaimine, then I have to hide in my room when I eat it. I'm still gonna eat it, it's just gonna be 'Don't come in here!'

I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of us would not be here.

If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease.

When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.

I've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.

I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.