This Is My Invariable Advice To People:

Tears Mess Up Your Makeup.

There Is Nothing Nicer Than A Kitchen Really Made For A Cook. Things That Are Designed To Be Used Always Have An Innate Beauty.

A Cookbook Is Only As Good As Its Poorest Recipe.

One Of The Secrets, And Pleasures, Of Cooking Is To Learn To Correct Something If It Goes Awry; And One Of The Lessons Is To Grin And Bear It If It Cannot Be Fixed.

My Mother Was Independent. She Had Grown Up In Dalton And Pittsfield, In Western Massachusetts, And She Was One Of The First Women Drivers In That Area.