“You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just l...” — Ruth Reichl Quote

You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking.

My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.

Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up.

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

I grew up at a time in Singapore - the '70s and '80s - where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.

As a kid I was always barefoot, always outside and as an adult I always want to be outside.

Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.

I always like to sing barefoot.