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" One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was. "

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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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" What often, too often, happens in magazines is that you end up with a great editorial product, and then you're selling things that you don't really approve of. "

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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. "

" What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was. "

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

" 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. "

" My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right. "

" Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they're talking about. "

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

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

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

" The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes. "

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

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

" The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegranate seeds and huitlacoche. "

" 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. "

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

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

" My mother's name was Miriam, but most people called her Mim. "

" 'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals with a later period in my life, most of the people who appear in it are living. "

" 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. "

" Writing about food is my default. "

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

" 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. "