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" You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted. "

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" I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978. "

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

" 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. "

" 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've been to a couple of restaurants in L.A. that were so loud, I left there with a sore throat; you literally could not have a conversation. I think it's very deliberate: There's this idea that somehow it's more fun if there's a roar in the room. "

" I've always hated Zagat. If I'm going to listen to someone else's opinions on restaurants, I don't care if I agree or not. I just want to know who they are. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "