Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty.

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.

In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say.

I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it -- and, more important, I like to give it.

My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.