Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

I was shy as a child. Now I'm not really shy any more, unless I'm with shy people. I find it contagious and I don't know what to say. But I don't think shyness is something one should feel apologetic about.

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.