(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

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.

I improvise therefore I exist!

Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour.

People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.

Looks like he's dressed for court.

From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.

My mama told me when I was young we're all born SUPERSTARS!

Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!

I look cooking! Particularly pad thai.

I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.