Kate Christensen Quotes
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I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
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I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
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'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
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In literature, older women are not often given center stage.
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I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.
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David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.
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Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.
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Ham is undoubtedly one of the most universally beloved of meats, at least in those parts of the world where it's not prohibited.
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I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.
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In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.
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Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.
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I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
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My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.
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Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.
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I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.
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As my family saw them, men were untrustworthy, weak, and selfish. Our mother taught us to get along without them, to get along without much of anything, and to live well and have fun anyway.
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'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.
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After my experiences with the 5:2 diet, I wasn't interested in a short-term fix that would fail later. I wanted a way of eating that made me lose weight without feeling deprived.
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I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the skin above them had become a little loose. And I thought, 'And so it begins!'