Geoffrey Zakarian

There's a point of no return when you're cooking tomatoes. A little too much heat, a little too long in the pot, and you lose that sense of fresh ripeness that makes tomatoes so great.

If you cook chopped tomatoes with all of their juices, it takes a long time for the sauce to reach the right consistency. By then, the freshness is gone.

I begin my day online and end my day online. I like to prepare myself for the next day and have a sense of closure before I go to bed.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I wanted my closet to look like a boutique.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.