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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.

I Think Careful Cooking Is Love, Don't You? The Loveliest Thing You Can Cook For Someone Who's Close To You Is About As Nice A Valentine As You Can Give.

Cooking Was Taken With Such Seriousness In France That Even Ordinary Chefs Were Proud Of Their Profession. That's What Appealed To Me.

I Found That The Recipes In Most - In All - The Books I Had Were Really Not Adequate. They Didn't Tell You Enough... I Won't Do Anything Unless I'm Told Why I'm Doing It. So I Felt That We Needed Fuller Explanations So That If You Followed One Of Those Recipes, It Should Turn Out Exactly Right.

I Was Never A Spy. I Was With The Oss Organization. We Had A Number Of Women, But We Were All Office Help.