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" 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. "

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" The truth is, as much as I loved writing restaurant reviews, it always felt very self-indulgent to me. It was so much fun, I loved doing it, but there's so much else to say about food. "

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

" We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable. "

" In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything. "

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

" I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people. "

" The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it's fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn't remain beautiful. But I love marble. "

" I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal. "

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

" Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they're talking about. "

" There is an almost anti-epicurean tradition at the very base of America. For much of the middle part of American history, people who wanted to overcome that went to France. "

" Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating. "

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

" It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist. "

" 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. "

" I think it's part of the DNA of human beings. We are a cooking animal. What differentiates us from all the other animals is that we cook and they don't. "

" I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day. "

" Reading an audio book is a very odd experience because there are three people sitting out there while you're reading in this glass booth, and you can see their reactions. "

" M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end of her life. "

" When I ate slowly and deliberately, giving myself time to consider whether I actually wanted that next bite, I often discovered that I didn't. "

" I don't have my own garden; we're on shale and in the woods. And if I did have a garden, the deer and chipmunks and squirrels and bears would eat everything anyway. "

" 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. "

" My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor. "

" 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. "

" I loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited. "

" 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. "

" I've been to a couple of restaurants in L.A. that were so loud, I left there with a sore throat; you literally could not have a conversation. I think it's very deliberate: There's this idea that somehow it's more fun if there's a roar in the room. "

" I bake bread nearly every day; I use Jim Lahey's no-knead method and leave it to rise overnight. "

" To me, cooking is man's natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I've ever done. "

" I couldn't live without butter. Butter is probably my single favourite food. "