When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely pool of sauce whose ambrosial flavors are like nothing ever before tasted, but rather something comforting and savory, easy on the digestion - something that makes one feel, if even for only a minute, that one is safe.

The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.

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

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