There Is A Kind Of Euphoria Of

Tension Translates To Your Guests. They'll Have A Much Better Time Having Chili And Baked Potatoes Than They Would If You Did Roast Duck With A Wild Cherry Sauce And Then Had To Lie Down And Cry For A While.

But If You Know That Something Has Been Really Vicious, You Don't Read It, You Don't Let It Into Your Head. What's Damaging Is When Sentences Go Through Your Head And You Burn With The Injustice Of It.

People Who Have Fabulous Childhoods Have This Sense That Nothing Is Ever Going To Be That Good Again. With Me, I Have The Sense That Nothing Is Going To Be That Bad.

I Used To Refer To Myself As Typhoid Mary. It Wasn't That I Was Jinxed, I Just Seemed To Bring Ill Fortune To Anybody I Was Close To.

The Thing I Liked About Writing About Food When I Started It Was That I Felt I Was Writing About Food In A Different Way. Not Like A Food Writer.