Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.

Morning always comes.

Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

restraint equals indulgence

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.