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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Ruth Reichl

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

" I like to work. I believe that work helps us find our self worth. "

" If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s. "

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

" When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level. "

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

" 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

" Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I saw that my teenage craving had not really been for food. That ravenous desire had been a yearning for love, attention, appreciation. Food had merely been my substitute. "

" 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 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. "

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

Ruth Reichl

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DNA

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" The implications of Americans devoting their lives to fast food are more profound than the fact that our kids aren't eating well. There are real repercussions that we need to know about and think about. "

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

" 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. "