I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

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