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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.

We slid along water reds and greens, the changing lights captured in the canvas of wet tar.

I couldn't live without butter. Butter is probably my single favourite food.

Life is so endlessly delicious

I love breakfast, and I don't see any reason it has to be cereal and eggs and toast.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

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.

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

But I have always been persuaded that someday, when I grow up, I am destined for great things. And then I wonder when, exactly, I expect that will be.

Don't make a big to-do about the turkey; brine it, put it in the oven, and don't think about it again.

What I always do in times of trouble or stress is to try and do something I don't know how to do.

My kitchen was built for my body. It forms a 'U' in the middle of the living room and dining room. It's not huge, because I don't like huge kitchens.

I don't think I hate any food trends.

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.

You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking.

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.

When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us.

The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.

The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.

I feel as if there's a huge gulf separating me from all the lucky people in the world; they have so much to look forward to.

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

I discovered that endings have their own odd thrill. In the mania of the moment, it's possible to forget what you are losing.

My mother's name was Miriam, but most people called her Mim.

I like to work. I believe that work helps us find our self worth.

I have to admit I've never had a Fruit Loop.

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.

And he smiled when he saw me, as if just the sight of me had improved his day.

It was Mac who first made me think about the way food brought people together - and kept them apart.

I like poached eggs, but I'll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants.

If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease.

When I came to 'Gourmet,' I had no clue how to run a magazine; for television, I am fascinated to learn about editing.

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.

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.

Hermione was back, holding out a gossamer dress of rainbow chiffon so airy I thought of fireflies on a moonlight night.

To me, cooking is man's natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I've ever done.

I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid football fan, and it's been so horrible.

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

Giving people presents is such an intimate act; you're basically telling them who you think they are,

That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault. Lulu

I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad.

You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life.

When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.

A great meal is an experience that nourishes more than your body.

For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well.

Writing about food is my default.

What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.

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 wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

I don't think there's one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner.

It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.

I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut.

One of the effects of cheap food is, we have food that is so unsatisfactory. We need to go back to flavor.

That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.

Don't you just love the idea of cooking flowers? I imagine them bursting into bloom, right in the pan.

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.

I bake bread nearly every day; I use Jim Lahey's no-knead method and leave it to rise overnight.

That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past.

If you're going to tell stuff, you might as well tell the real stuff.

In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything.

I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.

I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.

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.

I am telling you that if things can change for the worse, the opposite is also true. But only if you open yourself to the possibilities.

I don't care what a lot of anonymous strangers think about restaurants.

Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they're talking about.

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.

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.

You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted.

I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound.

Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.

Were unaware that the room was crowded with ghosts who were about to propel us into the present and force us to face the future.

It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.

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.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

I decided that it wasn't pretty that I felt, but confident.

I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.

I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.

I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978.

I'd rather be a fool than hard-hearted.