My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.
“I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.”
“The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.”