I don’t make my kids say I’m their favorite star
The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.
A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes, and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.
The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think of Jerusalem as our home. Not home in the sense of the place that you conduct your daily life or constantly return to. In fact, Jerusalem is our home almost against our wills. It is our home because it defines us, whether we like it or not.
Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never get past the first chapter. To me, the title better say everything there is to say about the book.
OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
It is not enough for [the investor] to know all the factors that can possibly contribute to the determination of a future event. In order to anticipate correctly they must also anticipate correctly the quantity as it were of each factor's contribution and the instant at which its contribution will become effective.
Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.