125 Quotes by Kate Christensen

'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.

Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.

Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.

Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.

David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.

Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.

Ham is undoubtedly one of the most universally beloved of meats, at least in those parts of the world where it's not prohibited.