Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.
I’m always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems.
I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.
I haven’t been to Tasmania. I haven’t been to the South Pole, and I haven’t been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.
As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult. But I am safe, fit and healthy.
I was the second of six kids. I wouldn’t say we were poor; we had no money. That’s different.
Don’t be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.
Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful, more comfortable, more functional and more full of life and light and joy for those we love.
My new motto is: When you’re through changing, you’re through.
I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don’t think they should rip up the Rose Garden, because that’s something that I love. They should probably dig up another patch and grow some vegetables there.
Gardening is a humbling experience.
I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.
I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
I love Champagne and I love to drink it out of any kind of beautiful glass.
I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.
Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter.
I was married for 30 years. Isn’t that enough? I’ve had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.
I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.
I invented ‘It’s a good thing’ before you were even born.