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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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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. "

" I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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