Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.
Somewhere along the way, I discovered that in the physical act of cooking, especially something complex or plain old hard to handle, dwelled unsuspected reservoirs of arousal both gastronomic and sexu...
If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.
The crunch of the mustard-spiked crust somehow brings the unctuous smooth richness of the liver into sharp relief. It's like the silky soul of steak. You have to close your eyes, let the meat melt on...
I took a bite of lobster meat with rice. It was quite tasty. 'Arguing the morality of slaughter will send you into a tailspin of self-loathing every time.' 'Unless you're a vegan.' 'Uh-huh. But then y...
Performance anxiety and a dry-cleaning bill; those were the only things keeping me from stark raving lunacy.
Kiedy nie wierzy się niebo, śmierć jest stuprocentowym Końcem. Choć to śliczna myśl, nie wierzę, że Julia je w raju Sole Meunière z Paulem. Wierzę, że jej ciało zostało pogrzebane - pod bardzo fajnym...
I felt like a Jane Austen heroine all of a sudden, confusedly looking on at all the people she loves, their myriad unpredictable couplings and uncouplings. There would be no marriages at the end of th...
It was only once I was in the car ... that the only two reasons I hadn't joined right in with the loon with the gray crew cut, beating my head and screaming Fuck! in primal syncopation, were (1) I'd b...
How much more interior can you get, after all, than the interior of bones? It's the center of the center of things. If marrow were a geological formation, it would be magma roiling under the earth's m...
Everyone knows there are foods that are sexy to eat. What they don't talk about so much is foods that are sexy to make.
Reading was how I got my ya-yas out.
Maybe if the men in my life weren’t always making smart-ass comments, they wouldn’t have to worry about bruises so much.
Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.
Mas o cinismo persistente deixa uma pessoa rabugenta e, em demasia, pode provocar estragos duradouros no nosso coração.
Lulled by the calming music of ice clattering in the cocktail shaker, I began to ponder; this life we had going for ourselves
Eric had to make me wake up for long enough to take out my contacts.
Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.
But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out.For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood them, but m...
At the end I am always alone.