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

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

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

Say what you know.

Age had nothing to do with how well my brain worked.

Agility within and of itself is a strategy.

All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor duty mercy hope.

Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.

Tell me what’s the difference between hope and waiting because my heart doesn’t know It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

Armour is light at table.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.