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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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" There is an almost anti-epicurean tradition at the very base of America. For much of the middle part of American history, people who wanted to overcome that went to France. "

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" What I always do in times of trouble or stress is to try and do something I don't know how to do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I have to admit I've never had a Fruit Loop. "

" If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" To me, cooking is man's natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I've ever done. "

Ruth Reichl

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" I like to work. I believe that work helps us find our self worth. "

" 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. "

" When I came to 'Gourmet,' I had no clue how to run a magazine; for television, I am fascinated to learn about editing. "

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

" 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'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think there's one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner. "

" I like poached eggs, but I'll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants. "

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

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

" '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. "

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