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I'm a big fan of Caribbean food, Spanish food, Dominican food - like rice and beans. Hot sauce just adds a different layer of boom to the food, you feel me?

I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.

I love hot edamame with truffle sauce.

I love spicy food.

The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another.

Any sauce whatsoever should be smooth, light (without being liquid), glossy to the eye, and decided in taste. When these conditions are fulfilled, it is always easy to digest, even for tired stomachs.

That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.

I like regular meals and restaurants that will adapt things to your taste. Not a place where they roll their eyes if you want the sauce on the side.

If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

Spices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I've always loved the Mediterranean flavors.