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

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

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

" Writing about food is my default. "

" 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. "

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

" If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegranate seeds and huitlacoche. "

" There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them. "

" I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound. "

" 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. "

" I was in Berkeley when the food energy in America was in Berkeley. Then it moved to Los Angeles, and I went to Los Angeles. It moved to New York, and I went there. "

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

" 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. "

" If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution. "

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

" My mother's name was Miriam, but most people called her Mim. "

" '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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef. "

" 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 have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid football fan, and it's been so horrible. "

" 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?' "

" 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.' "

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