Quotes from Sherry Yard

In California, you're on a first-name basis with fruit. You take a beautiful Blenheim, you don't want to mess with it.

I shop at the farmers' market twice a week.

Grandma played a taste test game with my sister and me when I was 3 years old. She would blindfold us and have us guess what was on the spoon: the first flavors I got were strawberry - then coffee!

Any opportunity I get to melt butter, I continue on to the 'noisette' stage.

The appetite starts with the eye.

Efficiency is key to a successful kitchen. Clean your station as you go. Make yourself aerodynamic. Buy the best. Taste ingredients as you go.

I'd rather bake 14 times a day than bake one time a day and have all the bakers go home, and then everything's 14 hours old by the time anyone eats it. No.

When I was four and my sister six, we got a Susie Homemaker oven for our birthdays.