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" '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. "

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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. "

Ruth Reichl

You

Back

American

" 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. "

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

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

" One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was. "

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

" You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life. "

" I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life. "

Ruth Reichl

Kind

My Life

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

" Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface. "

" People are so used to eating terrible pancakes, no matter how you mess up, they're going to be great. And if you make fresh orange juice, they'll be over the moon. "

" I loved writing fiction. I mean, once I found the character, or the characters, and knew who they were and knew their back-stories, it really - I mean, I went into my studio every day, thinking, 'What's gonna happen to Billy today?' "

" My kitchen was built for my body. It forms a 'U' in the middle of the living room and dining room. It's not huge, because I don't like huge kitchens. "

Ruth Reichl

Dining

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. "

" A real woman is someone who knows what she wants. If you want to stay home, that's fine, but you have to be clear-eyed. "

" The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes. "

" What often, too often, happens in magazines is that you end up with a great editorial product, and then you're selling things that you don't really approve of. "

Ruth Reichl

You

Selling

" What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was. "

Ruth Reichl

She

Person

" 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. "

" One of the effects of cheap food is, we have food that is so unsatisfactory. We need to go back to flavor. "

Ruth Reichl

Need

Food

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day. "

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

" I don't think there's one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner. "

" Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up. "

" I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry blender with wires and a wooden handle. I never use a recipe. "

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