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Rocco DiSpirito

"Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position."

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"Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position."

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Donna Grant

"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

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Donna Grant

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."

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Donna Grant

"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."

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Donna Grant

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

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Donna Grant

"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."

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Donna Grant

"I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food."

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Donna Grant

"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

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Donna Grant

"In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn."

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Donna Grant

"Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can."

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Donna Grant

"The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God."

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Rocco DiSpirito
"Mama is slowly getting better. So many people are so fond of her."

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Rocco DiSpirito
"I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother."

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Rocco DiSpirito
"At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare."

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Rocco DiSpirito
"I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste."

Food

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Rocco DiSpirito
"I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that's fine."

People

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Rocco DiSpirito
"There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can."

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Rocco DiSpirito
"I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods."

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Rocco DiSpirito
"I was on the show previously as a guest host, so I had a little practice."

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Rocco DiSpirito
"Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone."

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Rocco DiSpirito
"After guest appearances, I got the offer to do the show as the successor of Arthur Schwartz. It's so much fun."

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