There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.

I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.

Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.

The Dream Lover-what a bold, insightful, and enticing novel. And how vigorously Elizabeth Berg brings us the iconoclastic life of George Sand. Berg writes with such intimacy and compassion that I think she must have some shared ancestral DNA with Sand. I savored every page.