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The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.
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The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.
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If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.
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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.
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If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease.
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If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegranate seeds and huitlacoche.
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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.
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Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating.
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One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.
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I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry blender with wires and a wooden handle. I never use a recipe.
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By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.
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I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad.
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American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine.
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People are so used to eating terrible pancakes, no matter how you mess up, they're going to be great. And if you make fresh orange juice, they'll be over the moon.
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I think it's part of the DNA of human beings. We are a cooking animal. What differentiates us from all the other animals is that we cook and they don't.
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Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley and thinking: 'Why am I throwing these stems away? They're perfectly edible.'
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I loved writing fiction. I mean, once I found the character, or the characters, and knew who they were and knew their back-stories, it really - I mean, I went into my studio every day, thinking, 'What's gonna happen to Billy today?'
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Reading an audio book is a very odd experience because there are three people sitting out there while you're reading in this glass booth, and you can see their reactions.
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If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.
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I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you halfway, bringing his or her own experience to bear on everything you've written. What I mean is that it is not only the writer's memory that filters experience, but the reader's as well.
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Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.
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I like poached eggs, but I'll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants.
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When I ate slowly and deliberately, giving myself time to consider whether I actually wanted that next bite, I often discovered that I didn't.
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I bake bread nearly every day; I use Jim Lahey's no-knead method and leave it to rise overnight.
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I don't think there's one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner.
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When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us.
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The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.
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The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention.
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My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.
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I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound.
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There is an almost anti-epicurean tradition at the very base of America. For much of the middle part of American history, people who wanted to overcome that went to France.
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I've been to a couple of restaurants in L.A. that were so loud, I left there with a sore throat; you literally could not have a conversation. I think it's very deliberate: There's this idea that somehow it's more fun if there's a roar in the room.
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I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air.
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'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals with a later period in my life, most of the people who appear in it are living.
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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.
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What I learned is that how we present ourselves to the world is really how we get treated. So if you want to be treated really well in a restaurant, you really have to dress up. You cannot just show up.
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I love breakfast, and I don't see any reason it has to be cereal and eggs and toast.
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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.
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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.
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What I always do in times of trouble or stress is to try and do something I don't know how to do.
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If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution.
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I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.
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