Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save it by buying fresh foods in season or in large supply, when they are cheapest and usually best, and you prepare them from scratch at home. Why pay for someone else's work, when if you know how to do it, you can save all that money for yourself?

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it -- and, more important, I like to give it.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you?

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

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