168 Quotes by Ruth Reichl

I don't have my own garden; we're on shale and in the woods. And if I did have a garden, the deer and chipmunks and squirrels and bears would eat everything anyway.

I don't care what a lot of anonymous strangers think about restaurants.

I couldn't live without butter. Butter is probably my single favourite food.

I'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce.

I loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited.

I love breakfast, and I don't see any reason it has to be cereal and eggs and toast.

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.

What I learned is that how we present ourselves to the world is really how we get treated. So if you want to be treated really well in a restaurant, you really have to dress up. You cannot just show up.