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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Reading an audio book is a very odd experience because there are three people sitting out there while you're reading in this glass booth, and you can see their reactions. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals. "

" 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. "

" Writing about food is my default. "

" I think it's part of the DNA of human beings. We are a cooking animal. What differentiates us from all the other animals is that we cook and they don't. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were, like, ten or twelve test cooks. And whenever anybody finished something, they would yell, 'Taste!' and everyone would go running towards it, and then taste, and then brutally deconstruct the dish. "