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"I don't believe in low-fat cooking."
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"I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression."
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"I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is."
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"The best meals are those prepared by loving hands."
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"I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys."
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"So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out."
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"Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession."
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"I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't."
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"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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"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."
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"I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking."
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"I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy."
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"On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child."
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"I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour."
Dining
"'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry."
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"I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do."
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"Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true."
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"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."
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"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."
Memory
"I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside."
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"People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad."
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