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

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

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

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.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden -- so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.