It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.

Unlike some people, who love to go out, I love to stay home.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.