Vegetarian and frugal it may be, but the chickpea is one of the most versatile ingredients you could keep in your cupboards.
Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.
Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
Gastronomy is my hobby. I'm simply the casting director. Once I've brought all the right people together, it is they who must work together to tell a story.
Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.
I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.
With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.
I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
Most of my work is, I get an idea, and, with the help of Wikipedia, I can write. I don't have to leave my apartment.
If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.
After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.
Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by.
I'm turning you into a girl chasing a butterfly, a she-wolf on a hilltop, & then back into a woman.
Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.
I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him.
If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.
