Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.

It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.

Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long.

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is.