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" In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything. "

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" It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist. "

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

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

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

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

" If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it's fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn't remain beautiful. But I love marble. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life. "

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

" One of the things I really love about restaurants is that in many ways, they are the ultimate democratic institutions, where you get to walk in the door, plunk down your money, and for however long that you're there, you can be anyone you want to be. "

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

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

" 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. "