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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Don't make a big to-do about the turkey; brine it, put it in the oven, and don't think about it again. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" A real woman is someone who knows what she wants. If you want to stay home, that's fine, but you have to be clear-eyed. "

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

" I loved writing fiction. I mean, once I found the character, or the characters, and knew who they were and knew their back-stories, it really - I mean, I went into my studio every day, thinking, 'What's gonna happen to Billy today?' "

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

" Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level. "

" Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up. "

" 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. "

" In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything. "

" You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life. "