I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world.

From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.

My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

What I've been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.

I got a fascination with food.

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.