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I Have Always Thought It Was A Terrible Shame That The Women's Movement Didn't Realise How Much Easier It Was To Reach People By Making Them Laugh Than By Shaking A Fist And Saying, 'don't You See How Oppressed You Are.

I Don't Think Any Day Is Worth Living Without Thinking About What You're Going To Eat Next At All Times.

People In New Orleans Really Care About Food, Care About It Passionately, Can Spend Hours Arguing Over Whether Antoine's Is Better Than Galatoire's Or The Other Way Around ... In New Orleans, There Is Basically Nothing To Do But Eat And Then Argue About It.

I Live In New York City. I Could Never Live Anywhere Else. The Events Of September 11 Forced Me To Confront The Fact That No Matter What, I Live Here And Always Will. One Of My Favorite Things About New York Is That You Can Pick Up The Phone And Order Anything And Someone Will Deliver It To You. Once I Lived For A Year In Another City, And Almost Every Waking Hour Of My Life Was Spent Going To Stores, Buying Things, Loading Them Into The Car, Bringing Them Home, Unloading Them, And Carrying Them Into The House. How Anyone Gets Anything Done In These Places Is A Mystery To Me.

Food Became, For Dinner Parties In The Sixties, What Abstract Expressionism Had Been In The Fifties.