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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Really, the only way to face the biggest problems we have is for the government to change the way they subsidize food. The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food. "

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

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce. "

" 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. "