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

I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of bugs, the better.

The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

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

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.