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.

We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables.