Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

The single most useful ingredient on the planet. In a pinch you can scramble them and call it dinner. But it only takes five eggs, a little milk and a handful of cheese to make a fat, sassy cheese soufflé.

Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.