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

... I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it.

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

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.

I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

Drinking: something to do while getting drunk.