You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.

My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off.

Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

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