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in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.
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When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.
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She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.
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I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.
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A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife.
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history
table-manners
food
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I am telling you that if things can change for the worse, the opposite is also true. But only if you open yourself to the possibilities.
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Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned through self-knowledge. It may be a revolutionary idea, but it has offered me great comfort.
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self-knowledge
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Go ahead into life, full-blooded, courageous and leap for the adventure. But you must do it soon--before the summer of your youth has cooled off into caution. You are magnificently charming--and you come like a torrent. But you will be spent on the futility of little things. You are not a watercolor. You are carved out of life--and there can be no petty hesitancies about you.
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You'll find that historical research is extremely soothing. When you spend all day among old papers, the people come alive for you, and you begin to see the present through different eyes. You'll see. You view young people knowing that this is only one moment in time and it's passing very quickly. It's comforting. You begin to understand that time is no more than a trick of the mind; some days I'm convinced that my young self is still here,..
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research
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Growing up, I was utterly oblivious to the fact that Mom was teaching me all that. But I was instantly aware of her final lesson, which was hidden in her notes and leters. As I read them I began to understand that in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, Mom showed me that it is never too late to find out how to do it.
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and he smiled when he saw me, as if just the sight of me had improved his day.
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While cooking demands your entire attention, it also rewards you with endlessly sensual pleasures... The seductive softness of chocolate beginning to melt from solid to liquid. The tug of sauce against the spoon when it thickens in teh pan, and the lovely lightness of Parmesan drifting from the grater in gossamer flakes. Time slows down in teh kitchen, offering up an entire universe of small satisfactions.
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I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.
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A great meal is an experience that nourishes more than your body.
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spirituality
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Lulu writes: "When Mother, Mr. Jones and I were walking through those strange, crowded downtown streets, where people were sticking their hands into pickle barrels, pointing to smoked fish, and eating sliced herring, I saw the scene in a whole new way. They weren't buying food: They were finding their way home."
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My yogurt was nestled into a bag, waiting to turn into aushak, and all around us were sausages and pastry, lollipops and spices, chicken and cheese. Any world that contained all this, I thought surveying our loot, was a very fine place. I felt reinvigorated, alive, optimistic. The though of getting back to work suddenly seemed like fun.
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food-love
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I'd rather be a fool than hard-hearted.
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Giving people presents is such an intimate act; you're basically telling them who you think they are,
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I got back into the car thinking how lucky I was to be aware of happiness. Most people don't recognize their own good fortune until it has departed. And then it is too late." "What about Remy? What"
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That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault." Lulu"
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tragedy
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Luxury is best appreciated in small portions. When it becomes routine it loses its allure.
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I discovered that endings have their own odd thrill. In the mania of the moment, it's possible to forget what you are losing.
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Hope can't hurt
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I got back into the car thinking how lucky I was to be aware of happiness. Most people don't recognize their own good fortune until it has departed. And then it is too late.
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I wonder if any of us ever really knows another person?" she replied, sounding wistful."
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Change works both ways. You must accept those moments, experience them, and let them go. Because if you allow yourself to get stuck in that minute, nothing will ever change." "What are you saying?" "I am telling you that if things can change for the worse, the opposite is also true. But only if you open yourself to the possibilities. As Lulu did. It is what one finds so appealing about her." It"
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I know you're a chocolate lover. I can always tell. I'm about to temper the chocolate. I have my own method; want to watch?" "Could I?" Inside my head, a little voice was reminding me that I had to get back to the office, but it was drowned out by the scent of chocolate, which flooded all my senses with a heady froth of cocoa and coffee, passion fruit, cinnamon and clove. I closed my eyes, and for one moment I was back in Aunt Melba's kitch..
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chocolate-lovers
kim-wong
chocolate
flavors
spices
fruits
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It was Mac who first made me think about the way food brought people together -- and kept them apart.
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We're in a transient state - why hate our present selves? Let's save the energy for when we are eighty, when we are perhaps above, or beyond, changing. Then we can hate, if hate we must.
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Till I was back in your arms again." She had a nice voice, and I hummed along" --
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I just can't imagine somebody else in the White House. I'm sure President Truman is a good man, but even the words feel peculiar in my mouth. A world without President Roosevelt seems like a strange and scary place.
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I feel as if there's a huge gulf separating me from all the lucky people in the world; they have so much to look forward to.
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I decided that it wasn't pretty that I felt, but confident.
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confidence
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I wish you could have seen the kitchen when I was done: It looked like a hurricane had blown right in the door! But I cleaned it all up, and when Mother came home the whole house smelled warm and spicy, Bing Crosby was singing "White Christmas" on the radio, I was wearing a clean apron, and she called me her "little homemaker." What would you think about tomato mincemeat cookies? I bet no one else will think of that!"
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mincemeat
tomato
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CAKE whole black peppercorns whole cloves whole cardamom 1 cinnamon stick 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 large eggs 1 large egg yolk 1 cup sour cream 1 1/2 sticks (6 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 cup sugar 2 large pieces fresh ginger root ( 1/4 cup, tightly packed, when finely grated) zest from 2 to 3 oranges (1 1/2 teaspoons finely grated) Preheat oven to 350degF. Butter a..
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were unaware that the room was crowded with ghosts who were about to propel us into the present and force us to face the future.
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the secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things.
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Ruth Reichl |
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When you attain my age you will understand one of life's great secrets: Luxury is best appreciated in small portions. When it becomes routine it loses its allure.
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Ruth Reichl |
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Don't you just love the idea of cooking flowers? I imagine them bursting into bloom, right in the pan.
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flowers
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We slid along water reds and greens, the changing lights captured in the canvas of wet tar.
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but when I told her they didn't cost one penny and were very nutritious (I made that part up, but I'm sure it must be true), she ate them up. She packed them into her lunch pail this morning, and when I looked
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We were having a class on civics, talking about what makes America a great country. I said I thought one important reason is that we've all come from different places in the world and that we learn from one another.
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when you cook for people, they feel cared for.
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The meal began with pickled squid, oyster shooters, marinated anchovies, and scungilli salad. Then Rosalie set an enormous bowl of pasta con le vongole in front of Sal, who ladled it out, talking the entire time. The pasta was followed by huge platters of scampi, which we passed around. It was almost eleven when Rosalie set three enormous stuffed turbots on the table, and it was near midnight when she appeared with a plate of warm sugar-dus..
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italian
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