I don't like conflict.

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.

Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Failure is temporary, but defeat is permanent.

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

Harness the imagination, for she is the whole of happiness.

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

We are all gathered to the same fold.

As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.