Rachael Ray

"There is such a great lesson to learn in having your children in the kitchen with you. Children can smell the smells and watch all that goes into the preparation of the food. It’s a five-sense experience for them."

"There is a whole generation of kids coming up who don’t know about anything but eating processed food."

"It literally changes the quality of your life to be able to eat good food. It improves the nutrition of a child, and therefore it improves his or her health."

"Parents should encourage children as early as possible to begin safely using kitchen equipment."

"I think the importance of having kids in the kitchen is to expose them to something beyond cookies and snacks. It’s like a dumbing down of a child’s palate. By associating the fun of cooking only with sweets, you’re limiting the child’s experience."

"You would be surprised at how into cooking so many kids are today."

"You can make any food fun food."

"As a woman who's 50 and has a lot of jobs that I'm grateful for, I wanted to reflect that the American dream is still alive, that if you work very hard, opportunity will come your way, that you can be 50 and over and female in this country and still be relevant."

"You can't put a cook next to a stove and not expect that two things are going to happen - cooking and talking."

"Every time I put high heels on and I have to go somewhere in a dress I feel uncomfortable in, I'm not supposed to be at the party."