Ruth Reichl Quotes
Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.
...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.
Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner
She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.
...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.
When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.
I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.
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.
That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past.
That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.
Don't you just love the idea of cooking flowers? I imagine them bursting into bloom, right in the pan.
Hermione was back, holding out a gossamer dress of rainbow chiffon so airy I thought of fireflies on a moonlight night.
We slid along water reds and greens, the changing lights captured in the canvas of wet tar.
My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.
If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.
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.
If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.
