A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.
The cooking side is the easier way to be creative. On the policy side, it's harder to think of new approaches to problems.
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.
My two rules of cooking: keep it fresh and keep it simple.
To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
If I'm cooking dinner for my hubby or designing a line or selling on QVC, I try to do it in an authentic way. To speak to people like I want to be spoken to, to be a voice for people who don't have one and to give them things they need and love.
My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.
I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. They put a lot of care and quality into their cooking. I also love Mediterranean, New American, and Italian food, because the cuisines borrow influences from all over the world.
You probably would not choose to dine at a restaurant whose chef always ate elsewhere. I do eat my own cooking, and I don't "dine out" when it comes to investing.
How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?
Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.
So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do.
My way of communicating love and interest in people is through cooking. I grew up in an environment where food was really celebrated, and that gave me the message: food makes people happy.
Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!
A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.