No one would call me a great cook, but over years of cooking, for me, confidence has replaced ambition. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I cook so that there is no absence. I cook so that I am always there, even when I'm gone, even when… — 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
Now, I love Israeli food, love 'Jerusalem: A Cookbook', love the homey exoticism, the fusion forged in the crucible of an eternally… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Cooking is, to me, the perfect fusion of generosity and selfishness, indeed the resolution of generosity and selfishness, the answer to my… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Food's not done until it yields something, maybe its soul or maybe just its secrets, and how long you're willing to wait… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
There are only three questions that matter in the kitchen if you're cooking and not baking. The first is how good are… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
The two biggest meals of your life you don't have to cook and you don't get to eat. The first you don't… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Most people are hungry, therefore they eat. I am hungry, therefore I cook. Since my senior year in college, when I moved… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Josh Ozersky was a meat man. He knew meat, revered it, studied it, sang it, evangelized it, wrote about it, and, of… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Because I actually like cooking for people, people like what I cook for them. — 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 Copy Share Image
And you understand something: that although, like all American eaters, you've been conditioned to think of the entree as the climax of… — 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 Copy Share Image
Between 1965 and 1980, my mother, Frances Junod, served cutlets of pale flesh - mostly veal and chicken, though sometimes pork -… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Every artist can make art only from the materials at hand, and many of the child stars who try to mature into artists can… — 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
We might accept pit bulls personally, but America still doesn't accept them institutionally, where it counts; indeed, apartment complexes and insurance companies are arrayed… — 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
My mother was not a country girl. She was a Brooklyn girl, born and raised in Flatbush, and then a Long Island girl, who… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
That there is as yet no drug for immortality - or, for that matter, for muscle growth in the infirm - does not mean… — Tom Junod 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 that matter… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Josh Ozersky was a meat man. He knew meat, revered it, studied it, sang it, evangelized it, wrote about it, and, of course, ate… — Tom Junod 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 to be… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I have about 25,000 songs on my computer and play them mostly on shuffle, which means that the songs I've played the most are… — 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
