I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

Good cheese needs good companions.

I am so happy to see more and more people in this country are becoming addicted to cheese.

What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would fix it. He would cook it down, condense it-this broth with all sorts of feet in it, then it would gell into sheer bliss. It kept me alive once for three weeks when I was ill as a child. And I've always craved it since.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

If you have never tasted a braised vegetable, you'll find it is a revelation.