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Life is so endlessly delicious
Writing about food is my default.
I have to admit I've never had a Fruit Loop.
I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978.
It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.
I don't care what a lot of anonymous strangers think about restaurants.
My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
I couldn't live without butter. Butter is probably my single favourite food.
If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease.
I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound.
I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.
When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.
Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.
I like poached eggs, but I'll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants.
The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.
It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.
I love breakfast, and I don't see any reason it has to be cereal and eggs and toast.
I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.
I bake bread nearly every day; I use Jim Lahey's no-knead method and leave it to rise overnight.
I don't think there's one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner.
When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.
Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they're talking about.
In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything.
Don't make a big to-do about the turkey; brine it, put it in the oven, and don't think about it again.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.
When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us.
You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking.
The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.
One of the effects of cheap food is, we have food that is so unsatisfactory. We need to go back to flavor.
You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life.
I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut.
What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.
M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end of her life.
The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.
I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad.
It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.
When I came to 'Gourmet,' I had no clue how to run a magazine; for television, I am fascinated to learn about editing.
Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner
A real woman is someone who knows what she wants. If you want to stay home, that's fine, but you have to be clear-eyed.
If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegranate seeds and huitlacoche.
If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.
My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.
I loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited.
...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.
We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.
I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.
...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.
Ask people to pitch in - hand them a spoon and ask them to stir. Doing things together, having everyone help, makes for a nicer party.
I'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce.