"There are two Christmas traditions I've inherited from my mother. One is the feeling that Christmas isn't complete if…"

"While I am sure there are a number of women who secretly wonder whether they are lesbian, most simply have, somewhere…"

"My sister lives in New York and she was struck by how class-ridden the reviews were. Everyone had to mention that I'm…"

"It’s true that I wouldn’t have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuin…"

"The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different …"

"I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody…"

"Cooking aside, I am what you'd call a domestic slut. Cooking is really the only domestic activity I enjoy. I would do…"

"It's like I can never watch myself on TV unless I have to do some editing before a show comes out. It's like hearing …"

"[A]ll food images, if they are successful, have the power to arouse appetite. They should be luscious and sexy. I hav…"

"The trouble with modern cooking is that the mood it induces in the cook is one of skin-of-the-teeth efficiency, all b…"