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" 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. "

Ruth Reichl

Sharing

Place

Eating

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Ruth Reichl

Need

Food

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

" 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. "

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

" By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Ruth Reichl

Dining

Living

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them. "

" 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. "

Ruth Reichl

Football

Say

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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. "

Ruth Reichl

You

Selling

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