Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.
Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.
Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.
The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.
One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.
A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.
I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.
By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.
My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.
Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.
