Occupation: Author Birth: February 25, 1918 Death: October 20, 2007
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas..
You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet..
Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie….
You may have noticed, as I have, that if ever you find yourself declaring emphatically and unequivocally that you will never do some one particular t….
One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in ….
It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one..
Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curl….
many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they….
Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp lef….
the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself..
When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shatt….
Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal..
travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more ….
Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or an….
There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who don't cook out of and have NEVER cooked out of THE I HATE TO COOK BOOK, and the other kind.….
Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough..
forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age..
People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor..
There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make….
When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much..
Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine..