You can never have too much butter – that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it, — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“The truth is, most of the genuinely tragic episodes of lost food are things that are somewhat outside the reach of the… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“A while back, my friend Graydon Carter mentioned that he was opening a restaurant in New York. I cautioned him against this,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“The next man I was involved with lived in Boston. He taught me to cook mushrooms. He taught me that if you… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share
“That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves… — Nora Ephron Copy Share
“The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup… — Nora Ephron Copy Share
Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then… — Nora Ephron Copy Share
'When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. When you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.' — Nora Ephron Copy Share
“I wish he were better at hailing taxis than I am; on the other hand, I realize that expectation is culturally conditioned, utterly foolish,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. — Nora Ephron Copy Share
I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity… — Nora Ephron Copy Share
You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion. — Nora Ephron Copy Share
“I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.” — Nora Ephron Copy Share
“If I was home alone at night, I cooked myself an entire meal from one of these cookbooks. Then I sat down in front… — Nora Ephron Copy Share
“The next man I was involved with lived in Boston. He taught me to cook mushrooms. He taught me that if you heat the… — Nora Ephron Copy Share
“Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some… — Nora Ephron Copy Share
“I hear myself saying these words: What this movement is about is options. I say it to friends who are frustrated, or housebound, or… — Nora Ephron Copy Share