A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.

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.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.