At Table

"It's a French term, à table, like time stops and that you're breaking bread, and you're drinking wine. And you're telling stories, and you're talking, and you're sharing. You know, I think back on Thanksgiving memories and how that brought the family together and cousins. And in a little way, that's what we do is that we bring people together, and it's almost like a little Thanksgiving dinner and that just sensual joy of eating and drinking really good things."--Chef Frank Stitt

And on that note, I recently discovered that Martha Stewart's strawberry bread recipe is delish.

Great Chemistry

"While cooking is art, baking is not -- it is mostly chemistry." (Alton Brown)

The man speaks truly. I recall the time I accidentally put triple the usual amount of baking soda in some cookies . . .

Food and Fire

"A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body." --Margaret Fuller