Cleanliness is very important. If you let kids make a total mess in the kitchen and then leave, you're not really teaching them anything.
Kids are now eating things like edamame and sushi. I didn't know what shiitake mushrooms were when I was 10 - most kids today do.
I think you've got to keep it simple, keep it fresh. Stay away from all that processed stuff, read the labels.
Radishes grow just about anywhere. People think, 'Oh it's just a radish.' But radishes are delicious, and people don't think of cooking them.
We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.
A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
I've been waiting for this a long time."-Martin "Let me guess that you're wishing for your IQ to break double figures?"- Alex V.
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.
A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.
Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …
I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.
I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.
I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I tend to leave her there and take the other one.
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.” {Guy Gavriel Kay}
That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.
