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" American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine. "

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" You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking. "

" Ask people to pitch in - hand them a spoon and ask them to stir. Doing things together, having everyone help, makes for a nicer party. "

" I like to work. I believe that work helps us find our self worth. "

" The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact that we allow that to go on is horrifying. "

" I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down. "

" Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley and thinking: 'Why am I throwing these stems away? They're perfectly edible.' "

" I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978. "

" The implications of Americans devoting their lives to fast food are more profound than the fact that our kids aren't eating well. There are real repercussions that we need to know about and think about. "

" What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level. "

" My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something called 'Everything Stew,' where she would take everything in the refrigerator, all the leftovers, and put them all together. "

" For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well. "

" World War II really fascinated me because it's the only time that everybody in this country sat down at the same table, because eating on rations was your patriotic duty. "

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" I love breakfast, and I don't see any reason it has to be cereal and eggs and toast. "

" I have to admit I've never had a Fruit Loop. "

" My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right. "

" Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people. "

" The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness. "

" What I always do in times of trouble or stress is to try and do something I don't know how to do. "

" The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there. "

" If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease. "

" The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children. "

" You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted. "

" 'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals with a later period in my life, most of the people who appear in it are living. "

" What I learned is that how we present ourselves to the world is really how we get treated. So if you want to be treated really well in a restaurant, you really have to dress up. You cannot just show up. "

" One of the things I really love about restaurants is that in many ways, they are the ultimate democratic institutions, where you get to walk in the door, plunk down your money, and for however long that you're there, you can be anyone you want to be. "

" It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals. "

" Don't make a big to-do about the turkey; brine it, put it in the oven, and don't think about it again. "

" I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air. "

" The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention. "