Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Cale! Have you had a female in here?”Calic laughed carelessly. “Depends on when you're referring to.

The law, " he continued, "is made by the rich people so that the poor people can't get ahead...

Well, that explains the dreamy accent. And why transvestites would make him feel homesick.—SINGLE-MINDED

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are.

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?

Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself.