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

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" I don't care what a lot of anonymous strangers think about restaurants. "

" American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact that we allow that to go on is horrifying. "

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

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

" The critic has to do more of what the book critics and art critics have done in the past. Which is give you a context for understanding the restaurant, give you a better way to appreciate it, give you the tools to go in there and be a more informed diner who can get more pleasure out of the experience. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 don't think there's one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner. "

" 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. "

" When I came to 'Gourmet,' I had no clue how to run a magazine; for television, I am fascinated to learn about editing. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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