Quotes from Diane Mott Davidson

Catering is extremely demanding financially and physically. It's a business.

I like cream cheese in just about anything.

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?'

I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.

In a deep sexy voice, she said Windows don't turn me on. I raised an eyebrow at her, Mac user?

Sometimes you have to fight fire with a blowtorch

What a gift to have a son.

You can't buy what you want. It all comes as a gift.

You should not face the world if you are unable to give to the world

Anything tastes good when you wash it down with chocolate.

For had it been an adversary who taunted me, then I could have borne it; or had it been an enemy who vaunted himself against me, then I could have hidden from him. But it was you, a man after my own heart, my companion, my own familiar friend.

I had deliberately let the relationship with Schulz wane until there was little left. We had been like the hot chocolate they sell at ski resorts. For your buck fifty, a machine first spews dark, thick syrup into a cup. This liquid gradually turns to a mixture of chocolate and hot water. Soon there is just a stream of hot water, and in a moment, drops. You wish the chocolate part would go on gushing forever, but it doesn't.

I'd kill to get into Stanford." A you've-got-to-be-kidding laugh snorted across one of the dining tables at the headmaster's house. "Start playing football," whispered another voice. "Then they'll kill to get you.

I felt guilty about the broken china; the fallen pot ring; the fancy towels, now ruined; the dinner . . . but most of all, I was worried about Yolanda, who was in excruciating pain from burns. . . . Sean's

between the three of

when the great moments came, you should stop and enjoy them, because they weren't going to last.

veteran—or so she claimed—of

Exactly. Well, not exactly. She didn't say 'have sex.' She

masculine blend of brown and

Darling, my friend has just been mugged and she needs better coffee than this. Was it made from ancient beans? Do us all a favor and make a fresh pot.

Shuttlecock Shrimp Curry 3 tablespoons unsalted butter 2 cups unpeeled chopped Granny Smith apples 2 cups chopped yellow onions 3 large cloves garlic, pressed 4 teaspoons curry powder, or more to taste 3 tablespoons flour ½ teaspoon dry mustard ½ teaspoon salt, or more to taste ¼ teaspoon paprika ¼ teaspoon crumbled dried thyme ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or more to taste 2 cups homemade chicken stock

exhausted I just couldn't call Marla

When I make a recipe for the first time and it's fabulous, I know I'm in trouble because I don't know exactly what I did, and I can't replicate it.