I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.