As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

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

a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.

When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about - more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.

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.

Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.