While many of us enjoy the nostalgia of grandmother's cooking, we can't imagine living without the comforts of the modern kitchen. Our goal is to provide consumers new and creative ways to make life in the kitchen easier.

I promise that once you try living with an older fuel-efficient car, cooking instead of dining out five days a week, and paying with cash, you'll realize that you're just as happy as you were in your free-spending old life. In fact, you'll be happier. Less money anxiety and more time spent at home with your family will make the 'sacrifices' seem inconsequential.

Nina knows more about Chinese cooking than all of us combined because she's studied it.

When we decode a cookbook, every one of us is a practicing chemist. Cooking is really the oldest, most basic application of physical and chemical forces to natural materials.

When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are completely dead. They die long before you do. It's astonishing to consider all the things from your past that used to happen all the time but (a) never happen anymore, and (b) never even cross your mind. It's almost like those things didn't happen. Or maybe it seems like they just happened to someone else. To someone you don't really know. To someone you just hung out with for one night, and now you can't even remember her name.

I have never aspired to be the greatest cook, but rather the greatest at inspiring others to cook. I believe the best way to do that is to make cooking approachable to all - with unpretentious recipes and delicious results, people are hooked. I hope my cookbooks are the ones covered in chocolate fingerprints with oil splatters and crinkled pages. The ones that never make it onto the bookshelf in the living room as they are tucked safely in the kitchen.