Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.