No one would call me a great cook, but over years of cooking, for me, confidence has replaced ambition. — Tom Junod Ambition Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures of reading Tom Wolfe - of still reading Tom Wolfe - is the sense of awe he… — Tom Junod Awe Copy Share Image
It is hard to decide whether Mark Zuckerberg is the most interesting boring person in the world or the most boring interesting… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Before the Beatles could give us 'The White Album', they had to achieve disorienting success. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I love many of the rock and rollers next up on altar of actuarial sacrifice more than I ever loved David Bowie. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I don't play guitar. I sing. I'm the lead singer, of Cousin Billy. I also play harmonica, after a fashion. — Tom Junod Fashion Copy Share Image
Mark Zuckerberg is the product of Facebook just as surely as Facebook is the product of Mark Zuckerberg. — Tom Junod Facebook Copy Share Image
But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
There is certainly no want of journalistic ambition among the purveyors of what is now called 'long-form,' nor of novelistic technique brought… — Tom Junod Ambition Copy Share Image
Of course, Google specializes in coming up with ideas, professes the highest ideals, and is dedicated to solving the world's problems. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, a long time ago, a man took off his jacket and put on a sweater. Then he took… — Tom Junod Fashion Copy Share Image
I am not running for president, but I've always known if I ever did run for president - or local dogcatcher, for… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
The only restaurants in which you're actually happy to be served your entree are the restaurants that serve entrees ungarlanded by Chef's… — Tom Junod Ambition Copy Share Image
His name was Fred Rogers. He came home to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, once upon a time, and his parents, because they were wealthy,… — Tom Junod Home Copy Share Image
Gluttony is harder than it looks. It's listed as a sin, as something you give in to, when really it's a skill,… — Tom Junod City Copy Share Image
Now, I was one of those kids who grew up privy to both his parents' secrets, who acted as the intermediary between… — Tom Junod Children Copy Share Image
A mob pelting pilloried wrongdoers with rotten vegetables would seem to have little in common with one doing the same with 140-character… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
That's the first thing you learn when you busk in the New York City subways: you immediately join the ranks of the… — Tom Junod City Copy Share Image
I was a bully in fifth and sixth grade. I wasn't one of the bullies - I wasn't strong or dominant enough… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I had heard a lot of stories about my father and celebrities, most of them from his own mouth. In his stories,… — Tom Junod Business Copy Share Image
Let's face it: There used to be something tragic about even the most beautiful forty-two-year-old woman. With half her life still ahead… — Tom Junod Beautiful Copy Share Image
Fred Rogers was a children's-TV host, but he was not Captain Kangaroo or Officer Joe Bolton. He was an ordained Presbyterian minister… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Weddings have become an expression not just of our desires but also our ambitions, and so more and more the food at… — Tom Junod Chef Copy Share Image
My mother was not a country girl. She was a Brooklyn girl, born and raised in Flatbush, and then a Long Island… — Tom Junod Born and raised Copy Share Image
Wearing a suit can seem like a somewhat archaic gesture, a concession to formality in a determinedly casual age. — Tom Junod Age Copy Share Image
By becoming the Twitter police we've volunteered to become the thought police: This seems indisputable, even uncontroversial. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I wasn't learning to sing because I thought I could; I was learning to sing because I knew I couldn't. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I collect songs because I want to control what I - what everybody within earshot - listens to. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Any child can tell you what Google does - Google gives you the answers. But Google doesn't, not really. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
You don't have to love cooking to cook, but you have to do more than love baking to bake. You have to… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I'd never met Philip Seymour Hoffman, never knew anyone who knew him, never even read a passably revealing magazine profile of him. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
In a society in which the median age keeps advancing, we have no choice but to keep redefining youth. — Tom Junod Age Copy Share Image
I am the guilty gift-giver, which means that I am a gift-giver who lacks all sense of proportion. — Tom Junod Gift Copy Share Image
Because I actually like cooking for people, people like what I cook for them. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I did not get into a fistfight with my father at my sister's wedding. My sister didn't have a wedding. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
“What is grace? I'm not certain; all I know is that my heart felt like a spike, and then, in that room,… — Tom Junod Grace Copy Share Image
The child stars who emerged from Disney boot camp and dominated pop culture in the late '90s and '00s are not only… — Tom Junod Boot camp Copy Share Image
