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" 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.' "

Ruth Reichl

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" 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. "

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" We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Ruth Reichl

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" When I ate slowly and deliberately, giving myself time to consider whether I actually wanted that next bite, I often discovered that I didn't. "

" 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. "

" We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef. "

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

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

" Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up. "

" 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. "

" I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid football fan, and it's been so horrible. "

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

" 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. "

" Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "