Cara buono

I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, and I love socializing around a dinner table.

I love watching people enjoying food. It's very relaxing for me to cook.

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'

I make the best eggplant parmigiana. Except maybe my mother. The way she makes it is delicious. If I told you how, I'd have to kill you.

With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure.

Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

I'm not a snob. I can make a meal out of anything. I can eat anywhere.