At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin. Nora Ephron Read Quote
I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I’m not a three-star restaurant kind of a person; I’m just a food person. Nora Ephron Read Quote
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. Nora Ephron Read Quote
I have been forgetting things for years – at least since I was in my 30s. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time; I have proof. Of course I can’t remember exactly where I wrote about it or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to. Nora Ephron Read Quote
I think when you get older, things come along that you know are a test in some way of your ability to stay with it. And when e-mail came along, I was just going to fall in love with it. And I did. I can’t believe it now – it’s like one of those ex-husbands that you think, ‘What was I thinking?’ Nora Ephron Read Quote
I’m a good cook, and I look at something like ‘Iron Chef’ and think, ‘It’s a good thing I already know how to cook’ – because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows. Nora Ephron Read Quote
I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women’s movement didn’t realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, ‘Don’t you see how oppressed you are?’ Nora Ephron Read Quote
The one thing my mother did make was what was known at the time as lox and onions and eggs. Now, no one makes it with lox; they make it with nova. That was my mother’s specialty, which she cooked on New Year’s Day for the Rose Bowl games, which we had a party for every year. It took her about an hour to make scrambled eggs. Nora Ephron Read Quote
I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn’t really work. So then you don’t go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called ‘Back to Basics,’ I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends. Nora Ephron Read Quote
I was alive during the women’s lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position against cooking. I think they were talking about other things. Nora Ephron Read Quote
