If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.

Sometimes you win by losing.

But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.

I was...labelled as an advocate because...I measured something.

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

Most cornmeal producers dont tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

When in doubt, throw it out.

If I were you I'd put that away. See you're just wasted and thinking about the past again, darling you'll be okay.

To be happy, you have to love and forgive.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else

Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.

The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.

Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio. ... There is no one who will ever come close to him.