I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.

I just don’t know where to go from here, Alex.”“You don’t have to, we can trace our map together.

Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.

The instinct of self-preservation is above all the laws

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

A habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

Creativity is always from the beyond.

You’ll have your own superhero club before you know it.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.