Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.