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

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" 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. "

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

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

" I've been to a couple of restaurants in L.A. that were so loud, I left there with a sore throat; you literally could not have a conversation. I think it's very deliberate: There's this idea that somehow it's more fun if there's a roar in the room. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I love breakfast, and I don't see any reason it has to be cereal and eggs and toast. "

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something called 'Everything Stew,' where she would take everything in the refrigerator, all the leftovers, and put them all together. "

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

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