We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

In ancient Greece, the word for "cook, " "butcher, " and "priest" was the same -- mageiros -- and the word shares an etymological root with "magic.

Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.

When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the neasure of our bodies are the same

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, its foolproof.

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.

It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things.