I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

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

When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

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.

Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.