“As in cooking, living requires that you taste, taste, taste as you go along.”

“Don't forget, taste, taste, taste.”

“I didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child”

“The sharper your knife, the less you cry...for me, it also means cutting those things that get in the way of your passion and living your life the way it is meant to be lived.”

“Working at a job you don't like is the same as going to prison every day," my father used to say.”

“Living is like driving," my grandmother used to say. "You have to pick a lane." Have I chosen the right lane? It feels like this place, this moment in time, lies exactly halfway between my past and my future.”

“You can’t hurry love, and you can’t rush puff pastry, either. You can knead too much, and you can be too needy. Always, warmth is what brings pastry to rise. Chemistry creates something amazing; coupled with care and heat, it works some kind of magic to create this satisfying, welcoming, and nourishing thing that is the base of life.”