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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you halfway, bringing his or her own experience to bear on everything you've written. What I mean is that it is not only the writer's memory that filters experience, but the reader's as well. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "