Uncle Jeff insisted that I also take a tray of unseasoned barbecue, so I could see for myself that what’s going on here at the Skylight Inn does not in any way, shape, or form...

Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis. Usually one’s cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the...

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined ‘EVOO’ on my cooking show because saying ‘extra virgin olive oil’ over and over was wordy, and I’m an impatient girl – that’s why I make 30-minute...

As a little girl I always expected that one day adventure would happen to me—someday a tornado would whisk me away to Oz, or I’d fall down a rabbit hole, or David Bowie would kidnap...

The clouds are like marble in the sky, and I just want to make a kitchen counter out of the atmosphere. I can cook like a flock of birds.

My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and passions of our minds in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook.

If I had thought the beef marrow might be a hell of a lot of work for not much difference, I needn’t have worried. The taste of the marrow is rich, meaty, intense in a...

Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn’t been warmed by the fire of love is...

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

The relationship between professional and domestic cook has similarities to a sexual encounter. One party is normally more experienced than the other; and either party should have the right, at any moment, to say, “No,...

She ate it and cried.Soon, he put the melting ice cream away.”Shura,” Tatiana whispered, “darling, forget what should have been. Remember all that was.””Tatiasha, babe,” Alexander whispered, coming back to bed to be covered, “my...

…if you can’t find any grappa, half a cup of cough medicine should achieve similar results.” [Audrey’s advice]

In normal life, “simplicity” is synonymous with “easy to do,” but when a chef uses the word, it means “takes a lifetime to learn.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

I’d like to sit around a campfire with a couple of cowboys and argue over who’s going to turn on the stove.

Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.

I dated a Jewish girl whose grandmother made it,” I laughed.

mudbugs” out of their burlap sacks. Other than an onion or maybe an ear of corn, if it wasn’t alive when you threw it in, then it shouldn’t be in the pot, she’d say. Did...

How bad do you want cancer? Bad enough to eat a rainbow of it? Personally, I think the red cancer would be the worst, but anything you swallow with artificial hues in it is going...

I found that I always loved cooking, and that’s an important part of nutrition ? being able to cook and prepare your foods at home. I had seen the cooking school done, and I thought...

She hadn’t known that the ability to make pancakes from scratch made a man brutally hot. Now she did.

The restorative effect of a tasty dinner is quite remarkable. When the going gets tough, the tough get cooking.

No, I don’t want you to leave. I’m just grabbing your coat and nudging your toward the door for fun #AHOLE

There was a time-a lonely, lonely time-when salads were a pale and limp affair, relegated to the side of your plate, practically weeping. I think those dark days were also known as the ’80s. -p.11

Radishes grow just about anywhere. People think, ‘Oh it’s just a radish.’ But radishes are delicious, and people don’t think of cooking them.

I just hope the woman I invited over to dinner shares our insightful perspective.

Remember! When you tell a woman that she cooks something very good; you will be fucked by eating it three times a day.

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared...

To ferment your own food is to lodge a small but eloquent protest – on behalf of the senses and the microbes – against the homogenization of flavors and food experiences now rolling like a...

…no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Arts degrees are awesome. And they help you find meaning where there is none. And let me assure you, there is none. Don’t go looking for it. Searching for meaning is like searching for a...

He liked cooking. He would go to work sick and you wouldn’t know it. He was so stubborn. His goal was he’d get three cooks on the line, and he’d get on the line by...

He who makes soup of thistles is ill qualified to discuss the savor of a stalled ox.Chinese Sayings

It is a nice buttery, flaky fish that is so pleasant to eat. It requires a delicate cooking method. It can hold up with a lot of flavors and combinations with ingredients. My favorite is...

Without the Project I was nothing but a secretary on a road to nowhere, drifting toward frosted hair and menthol addiction.

You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have...

She’d have to treat the interview more like risotto than instant rice, adding ingredients gradually while stirring gently.

I am more of an herb guy than a spice guy. It comes back to a certain conservatism I have regarding food. The French are not big on spices; they use more herbs. I know...

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

I love Italy. For hundreds of years, if not centuries, the people of italy (Italians) have been living here.” [Audrey’s insight]

Get a life,” she said and returned to her task.

Orwell wrote easily and well about small humane pursuits, such as bird watching, gardening and cooking, and did not despise popular pleasures like pubs and vulgar seaside resorts. In many ways, his investigations into ordinary...

Women think they cook better than men. Hmm, I just laugh. Men allowed women to be operating the kitchen because we love women so much. When it comes to the nittys-gritty of cooking, we’ll beat...

Aye. And he’s surprisingly good at it, too!

Invest in what’s real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn’t have to be complicated. It will be what it will be.

Another time, perhaps.

Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.