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" It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy. "

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" In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. "

" I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece. "

" I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch. "

" Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way. "

" I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it. "

" I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction. "

" Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once. "

" Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest. "

" People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong. "

" I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body. "

" I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other. "

" For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals. "

" I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting. "

" I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it. "

" I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza. "

" People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook. "

" I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings. "

" My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go. "

" Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely. "

" I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included. "

" The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them? "

" I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. "

" I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply. "

" I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them. "

" During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes. "

" Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked? "

" I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats. "

" I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans. "

" I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian. "

" Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing. "