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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone. "

" Writing about food is my default. "

" If you're going to tell stuff, you might as well tell the real stuff. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I don't think I hate any food trends. "

" I've always hated Zagat. If I'm going to listen to someone else's opinions on restaurants, I don't care if I agree or not. I just want to know who they are. "

" 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. "

" What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were, like, ten or twelve test cooks. And whenever anybody finished something, they would yell, 'Taste!' and everyone would go running towards it, and then taste, and then brutally deconstruct the dish. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you halfway, bringing his or her own experience to bear on everything you've written. What I mean is that it is not only the writer's memory that filters experience, but the reader's as well. "

" I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" I like poached eggs, but I'll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants. "

" By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been. "

" I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut. "