There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who don't cook out of and have NEVER cooked out of THE I HATE TO COOK BOOK, and the other kind...The I HATE TO COOK people consist mainly of those who find other things more interesting and less fattening, and so they do it as seldom as possible. Today there is an Annual Culinary Olympics, with hundreds of cooks from many countries ardently competing. But we who hate to cook have had our own Olympics for years, seeing who can get out of the kitchen the fastest and stay out the longest.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.

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

When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.