Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Your world is as big as you make it.I know, for I used to abideIn the narrowest nest in a corner, My wings pressing close to my side.

Do--what should be done--without expecting anything in return.

Patience pays off, success and miracle, often in a very big way.

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?