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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry blender with wires and a wooden handle. I never use a recipe. "

" 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 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. "

" Writing about food is my default. "

" World War II really fascinated me because it's the only time that everybody in this country sat down at the same table, because eating on rations was your patriotic duty. "

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

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

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

" I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut. "

" Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating. "

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

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

" 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. "

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