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"I don't believe in low-fat cooking."
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"I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't."

"The best meals are those prepared by loving hands."

"My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes."

"Jennifer Anne had prepared some complicated-looking recipe involving chicken breasts stuffed with sweet potatoes topped with a vegetable glaze. They looked perfect, but it was the kind of dish where you just knew someone had to have been pawing at your food for a long while to get it just right, their fingers all in what now you were having to stick in your mouth."

"I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking."

"I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants."
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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

"But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it."

"Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies."

"I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside."

"Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see."

"You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over."

"And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up."
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