If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

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.

You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life

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

The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.