Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
Olive: Ain't you the big mouth since you hit your number.
Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.
Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.
If my cuisine were to be defined by just one taste, it would be that of subtle, aromatic, extra-virgin olive oil.
War – conflict where people are made to kill to live. Caused by less than 1% of a population – and experienced by the rest.
Zeitgeist – spirit of the age. No such thing. Imposition by hierarchy. People rebel – & are marginalised; or follow, chained.
Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.
I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.
You know, I never really thought of myself as a 'celebrity.' One of the titles that I like least is 'celebrity chef.'
Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are very few who have real talent.
When I'm in Los Angeles, my wife and I go to the farmers' market with the kids every Sunday.
We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.
Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.
Jenny sensed the energy of the cosmos. It was like a harmonious orchestra vibrating the universe into existence.' Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburger. I was that kid who wouldn't eat something if there was something missing. I never really understood it until I began cooking professionally, balan...
It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that universal equilibrium is maintained despite the disturbances of the 1,500 millions which inhabit the Earth alone, not to speak of other spheres.
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of readin...
You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'
