Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most ….

I've never not been famous..

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety..

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver..

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy..

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the….

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers..

I have to change to stay the same..

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt..

You live day by day. You can't build your life..

I is what I is, and I'm not changing..

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema..

I have seen myself backward..

The surest sign of fitness is success..

I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art..

Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal..

Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point vegetables, spr….

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right..

Where you stop is where you stop. There is always more of God..