When you think of a MOVIE, most people imagine a two HOUR finished, polished PRODUCT. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many MONTHS of full TIME work.

It is WARM WORK; and this DAY may be the LAST to any of us at a moment. But MARK you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.

Recently, a friend sent me the ONLINE musings of a televangelist who advised his THOUSANDS of followers that the FEDERAL Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the WORLD's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.

Yes, I am a judge on 'MasterChef,' where I TASTE thousands of DISHES, and yes I am a TRAINED chef which has had me commanding some of the biggest brigands a KITCHEN has ever seen. Yes, I have travelled the world and cooked on television and at food shows up and down the country, but in my heart I am a home COOK.

It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the WRATH of a natural DISASTER that LEGAL liability need not be hanging over their HEADS.

Television, RADIO, SOCIAL media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our POCKETS. THOUSANDS and thousands of messages and voices bombard US from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.

In the silence of night I have OFTEN WISHED for just a few words of love from one man, RATHER than the applause of thousands of people.

There is a history to Italian food that GOES BACK thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. AMERICA is YOUNG and doesn't have that.