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“The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.”
“I love to eat out, but even more, I love to eat in.”
“The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.”
“We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.”
“Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.”
“Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.”
“When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.”
“The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.”
“It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else.”