It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in their hands.

Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.

Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.

It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.

It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.

Listen for “Moments” — and Make it Personal

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Luck and nature shapes our imagination.

Attempts to control complex systems … tend to be pointless at best or destructive at worst.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

A lot of people think I'm retiring, but I've been telling a fib. I've been forced to leave this job because I gave $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.