Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel this way when they bake bread or have babies, and although they are perfectly entitled to feel that way, in fact, nature does most of the work.

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.

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures.

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

No one who cooks cooks alone.

It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.

Many people eat salad dutifully because they feel it is good for them, but more enlightened types eat it happily because it is good.