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" The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there. "

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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.' "

" I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down. "

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

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

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

" I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air. "

" Writing about food is my default. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end of her life. "

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