The Chinese Five-spice Works Really Well In

There Are Two Activities In Life In Which We Can Lovingly And Carefully Put Something Inside Of Someone We Love. Cooking Is The One We Can Do Three Times A Day For The Rest Of Our Lives, Without Pills. In Both Activities, Practice Makes Perfect.

In Growing Up In Seattle, I Don't Know A Single Family That Didn't Barbecue Or Cook On The Weekends And Make Its Own Kind Of Simple, Pared-down, What I Call Pacific Northwest Cooking.

There's A Battle Between What The Cook Thinks Is High Art And What The Customer Just Wants To Eat.

My Kids And I Make Pasta Three Days A Week Now. It's Not Even So Much About The Eating Of It; They Just Like The Process. Benno Is The Stuffer, And Leo Is The Catcher. They've Got Their Jobs Down.

The Chinese Five-spice Works Really Well In The Quantity That I Used. It Makes It Almost Imperceptibly Just A Little Bit Sweeter Without Making It Really Sweet Or Really Even That Asian Flavored.