Apartment Therapy: Good Quotes

Good Quote: Ruth Reichl on Cooking vs. Shopping

"I think the big misapprehension that people have is that cooking is time consuming. The shopping is the time consuming part."...

"You Don't Get Fat on Food You Pray Over"
Quotes from The New York Times Magazine

In this week's Times Sunday Magazine, the annual Food Issue, Michael Pollan shares his favorite reader-submitted food rules. We love this one for its sweet sentiment—no matter what your religious co...

Good Quote: Cooking Without Recipes from a Hmong Grandmother

During the segment on Hmong cooking in last week's episode of Splendid Table, we were struck by one quote in particular. Sami Scripter describes her experience of talking to the Hmong elders about rec...

Good Quote: Jacques Pépin on Winging It

Not so great about meal planning? Take some cues from a famous French chef: We never really plan ahead. If we don’t know what to do, there are always eggs. We love them. Right now I have beautiful t...

Good Quote: Michael Ruhlman on Perfection

In case you missed this in his interview with Evan Kleiman on Good Food last week, we wanted to share Michael Ruhlman's excellent words of advice regarding "good" versus "perfection" in the kitchen: ...

Guess Whose Kitchen This Is...

We'll give you a couple of hints. It's in Mississippi, and it belonged to a writer. Read on for a quote from the writer's memoir, a childhood memory of a full moon and a favorite food......

Good Quote: Dan Barber On a Cook's Most Important Tool

As you clean out your drawers and evaluate your kitchen equipment, here's a good quote from chef Dan Barber to keep you grounded: Q: What is your single most important cooking tool? A: A spoon. The mo...

Good Quote: On Simple Food, Simple Eating

God's people wanderin the supermarket among chemical frozen pies overprocessed skillet dinners nutritionless snack foods s...

Good Quote: Sam Kass on Soup and Social Change

Chicago chef Sam Kass has been tapped by the Obamas to serve under Cristeta Comerford in the White House kitchen. Something of a community organizer himself, Kass recently spearheaded a series of even...

Good Quote: Thoreau on Popcorn

With more snow in the forecast for much of the east coast, this quote from Henry David Thoreau feels quite timely! I have been popping corn tonight, which is only a more rapid blossoming of the seed ...

Good Quote: Dorie Greenspan on Carving a Chicken

This paragraph may have been dashed off in eight seconds—it's from a blog post—but it caught our attention for its lovely way of capturing the act of dismantling a whole, cooked chicken with skill...

Good Quote: Mark Kurlansky on Olive Oil

"At times it sees that the search for good health has taken all the pleasure out of life. It has stripped us of butter, cream, marbled red meat, pork, and goose fat, not to mention alcohol and fine, h...

Home Cooking: Laurie Colwin on Luxury and Frugality

"I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato. But there are things it is worth spending money on. ...

Good Quote: Laurie Colwin on Home Food

"I love to eat out, but even more, I love to eat in. The best dinner party I ever went to was a black-tie affair to celebrate a book, catered by the author's sister. When we sat down in our long dress...

Good Quote: Laurie Colwin on Home Cooking

It's Home Cooking month here at The Kitchn, and our title is partially an homage to Laurie Colwin and her marvelous book, Home Cooking: A Writer In the Kitchen. Here is a quote from Colwin in the piec...

Good Quote: On Cooking Without Recipes from Chef Jason Bond

During his cooking demonstration at our New England Aquarium seafood dinner, Chef Jason Bond of Beacon Hill Hotel & Bistro offered up this bit of wisdom regarding vegetables and other produce: "If th...

Good Quote: M.F.K. Fisher on Perfect Eating Experiences

I feel now that gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good ...

Splendid Table: Turning Food into Theater with Steve Jenkins

On this past week's episode of Splendid Table, Steve Jenkins of Fairway Market reminds us that there was indeed a time before foodies were foodies. He knows because was there to when it all began!...

Good Quote: Peaches and the Educated Cauliflower

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." Mark Twain...

Richard Llewellyn On Wild Blackberries and Cream

O, blackberry tart, with berries as big as your thumb, purple and black, and thick with juice, and a crust to endear them that will go to cream in your mouth, and both passing down with such a taste t...

Cake-y or Crumbly: How Do You Like Your Muffins?

We found ourselves in a fix this weekend. We had exactly one pint of blueberries, purchased at the Saturday farmer's market and carried lovingly home. Everyone in our household was agreed: we would m...

What's Cooking This Weekend...
Weekend of July 12-13, 2008

“Grilling is like sunbathing. Everyone knows it is bad for you but no one ever stops doing it.” - Laurie Colwin, 'Home Cooking' (1988) Sunbathing and grilling are both on our weekend agenda; sur...

Good Quote: On Tasting Everything

In the introduction to his book, 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World, Gary Vaynerchuk gives one of the most compelling arguments on taste that we've heard: The ...

Good Quotes: On Truly Great Meals

What makes a great meal? The food world likes to wax rhapsodic about huge masterpiece feasts and scientific discoveries in the kitchen. A great meal somehow entails new flavors dancing across palates ...

Good Quote: On the Refrigerator as Work of Art

Ms. Puett sees the refrigerator as just as valid a territory for thoughtful arrangement as any other part of the house. "It's a really fun game," she said. "It makes moving through the banalities of l...

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