What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
You can't go wrong with relatively simple comfort food. It's also about ease. Some cook to impress. I cook for people to enjoy the food.
One of the things I do as a food writer is to take a classic recipe made with meat, look at it a whole lot, and tinker with it according to my taste.
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.
Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.
I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for the 'Atlantic Monthly.'
It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.
Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.
I don't like junk food, just because I don't like the taste of it, but I don't go to the gym - ever.
More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.
Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.
Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.
I want to know where my food comes from and the conditions in which it's grown. I also want to embrace traditional British produce, and seasonality.
An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.
A lot of local food is very tasty. I'm very happy to eat it. I just don't think it's the same thing as saving the world.
