Pasta isn't just for Italian food anymore. Now there are tasty pasta recipes found in Asian cuisine, and it's emerging as a newfound love for vegans.

Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.

Weekends are sacred for me. They're the perfect time to relax and spend time with family and friends.

When I get the chance to make my favorite breakfast on the weekend, I often choose to make pancakes.

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

They say never trust a skinny chef, but the fact is, to stay healthy when you're a chef means you have to work twice as hard.

In the harrowing aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, one of the greatest needs became desperately clear: safe water.

I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach.

I would love to take a cooking class from Gandhi. Maybe I could teach him how to cook, and he could teach me his message. I wouldn't mind learning how to make couscous from scratch from a North African woman, either.

We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.

I don't have memories of Ethiopia as a child. I didn't learn about Ethiopian culture until after I moved to New York and started meeting people from the Ethiopian community.

As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.

I had great schooling, and my parents were always in front of me, or next to me, or behind me, making sure I had whatever I needed.

Most of my education has been around food.

Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking with my grandmother Helga in Sweden. And my grandmother Helga was a cook's cook.

To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

Criticism is part of the creative man's journey, and I appreciate it.

I stand behind everything I've done.

I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.

There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

If it's done really well, you don't want big portions because you think, 'That was so fulfilling. I'm not stuffed. I feel great.'

Healthy can be the new good. Eating delicious should not be sacrificed because it's healthy.

I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother's family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I'm from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life.