If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.

...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden -- so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.