I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.

...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

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.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.

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.