If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat.

- Eric Ripert

Stock up your pantry and your freezer with things that aren't perishable: Your favorite jar of tomato sauce that lists 'tomato' as the first ingredient, lots of grains, olive oils, vinegars, tomato pastes, onions, shallots. When you go to the store, you only have to pick up meats and produce.

- Giada De Laurentiis

At home, I make a large batch of tomato sauce and freeze it in meal-size portions in freezer bags.

- Joe Bastianich

Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato.

- Paul Michael Glaser

I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.

- Tom Sizemore