Top 97 Quotes by Ruth Reichl

I couldn't live without butter. Butter is probably my single favourite food.

I don't have my own garden; we're on shale and in the woods. And if I did have a garden, the deer and chipmunks and squirrels and bears would eat everything anyway.

I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound.

Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.

You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted.

I'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce.

Don't make a big to-do about the turkey; brine it, put it in the oven, and don't think about it again.

It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.

I think it's part of the DNA of human beings. We are a cooking animal. What differentiates us from all the other animals is that we cook and they don't.

I like poached eggs, but I'll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants.