Eating Is The Secret To Good Cooking.

Noncooks Think It's Silly To Invest Two Hours' Work In Two Minutes' Enjoyment; But If Cooking Is Evanescent, So Is The Ballet.

My Mother Was Independent. She Had Grown Up In Dalton And Pittsfield, In Western Massachusetts, And She Was One Of The First Women Drivers In That Area.

Personally, I Don't Think Pure Vegetarianism Is A Healthy Lifestyle. I've Often Wondered To Myself: Does A Vegetarian Look Forward To Dinner, Ever?

My Father Was In Real Estate, Banking, And Land Management. As Family Life, It Was Very Conventional, Happy, And Comfortable. We Weren't Wealthy, But We Were Well-off.

In The 1970s We Got Nouvelle Cuisine, In Which A Lot Of The Old Rules Were Kicked Over. And Then We Had Cuisine Minceur, Which People Mixed Up With Nouvelle Cuisine But Was Actually Fancy Diet Cooking.