In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!
Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.
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?
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.
You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.
I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.
I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.
I can’t function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure.
I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.
When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.