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I think it's part of the DNA of human beings. We are a cooking animal. What differentiates us from all the other animals is that we cook and they don't.

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You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking.

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I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid football fan, and it's been so horrible.

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What often, too often, happens in magazines is that you end up with a great editorial product, and then you're selling things that you don't really approve of.

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I'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce.

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The critic has to do more of what the book critics and art critics have done in the past. Which is give you a context for understanding the restaurant, give you a better way to appreciate it, give you the tools to go in there and be a more informed diner who can get more pleasure out of the experience.

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By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.

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Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.

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I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound.

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When I ate slowly and deliberately, giving myself time to consider whether I actually wanted that next bite, I often discovered that I didn't.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Chef

Born: January 16th, 1948

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