Writing about food is my default.

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.

She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

Life is so endlessly delicious

To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.

Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

The amount of time I spent on facing my negative conscious has been most of my struggle and changing my mind-set has been the biggest change in my life not my weight.

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is very finite. We walk around like lightening in a bottle.

Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?

There comes a point when things are undeniable and can't be hidden any longer. Even from yourself.

When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment.

Putting People First was progressivism revived, and at its best.