“I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.” — Jamaica Kincaid Quote

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.

Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.

EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

I've never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.