11 quotes found
“Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker.”
“The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy.”
“Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.”
“It was 10:30 in the morning and I was already running behind. This is hardly unusual, but it pisses me off every single time.”
“If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.”
“Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate ...”
“If I had thought the beef marrow might be a hell of a lot of work for not much difference, I neednt have worried. The taste of the marrow is rich, meaty, intense in a nearly-too-much way. In my inc...”
“Somewhere along the way, I discovered that in the physical act of cooking, especially something complex or plain old hard to handle, dwelled unsuspected reservoirs of arousal both gastronomic and s...”
“Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit around in my pajamas and type on my ridiculously fancy iMac, unless I'd rat...”
“I took a bite of lobster meat with rice. It was quite tasty. 'Arguing the morality of slaughter will send you into a tailspin of self-loathing every time.' 'Unless you're a vegan.' 'Uh-huh. But the...”
“But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out.For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood them, bu...”
