“My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had explod...” — Emeril Lagasse Quote

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

If you think big, then it's going to be big.

We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.

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.

When you're young and you're striving, it's all uphill, and it's easier to climb. Then, when you get and look around, you sort of say, 'Wow, the altitude's kinda thin up here!'

We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.

In Madrid, the conditions are always better for me. It suits my game: fast clay, high altitude, the balls fly really well.

I was first to understand it was boring to go with heavy shoes to base camp. When we first tried Dhaulagiri, a very difficult approach at high altitude, we needed very heavy boots. So it was usual to wear such heavy boots to approach all base camps. But I thought this was crazy. We needed lighter shoes for many of the approaches.