I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry blender with wires and a wooden handle. I never use a recipe.
From Ruth Reichl
My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.
What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was.
My mother's name was Miriam, but most people called her Mim.
What I learned is that how we present ourselves to the world is really how we get treated. So if you want to be treated really well in a restaurant, you really have to dress up. You cannot just show up.
I don't think there's one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner.
The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.
It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.
When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us.
I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978.
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