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

You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.