When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being on the road.
I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.
As I was growing up, all meals, including breakfast, were family occasions, and you all sat down to eat together - and you had to finish everything as well.
Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.
Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.
My kids are always in the kitchen with me - I bring them to the bakery and let them decorate cakes, and they also try to help me and my wife, Lisa, cook dinner at night.
My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.
I'm going to book-and-author dinners, and I'm the author!
I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.
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