Tom Junod

There are no foodies at funerals.

— Tom Junod

We can trust technology to effect change - that's a given.

— Tom Junod

Wearing a suit can seem like a somewhat archaic gesture, a concession to formality in a determinedly casual age.

— Tom Junod

By becoming the Twitter police we've volunteered to become the thought police: This seems indisputable, even uncontroversial.

— Tom Junod

I wasn't learning to sing because I thought I could; I was learning to sing because I knew I couldn't.

— Tom Junod

I collect songs because I want to control what I - what everybody within earshot - listens to.

— Tom Junod

Any child can tell you what Google does - Google gives you the answers. But Google doesn't, not really.

— Tom Junod

But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written.

— Tom Junod

I don't play guitar. I sing. I'm the lead singer, of Cousin Billy. I also play harmonica, after a fashion.

— Tom Junod

Mark Zuckerberg is the product of Facebook just as surely as Facebook is the product of Mark Zuckerberg.

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I never met Lou Reed, never was one of those journalists lucky enough to be the object of his derision, contempt, condescension,…

— Tom Junod

Music subscriptions will eventually replace music collections because the digital universe is oriented against the idea of ownership - because music ownership…

— Tom Junod

The suits are as similar as uniforms, and yet you can tell their individual qualities by how they respond to movement -…

— Tom Junod

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

The fact is, you can't have Southern friends without eventually wanting to sing with them, and without eventually learning that the only…

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My ten-year-old daughter loves gifts. She loves to give them and she loves to get them. She loves to give them when…

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We live in the golden age of character actors - in an age when actors who have done their time in character…

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And you understand something: that although, like all American eaters, you've been conditioned to think of the entree as the climax of…

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Weddings have become an expression not just of our desires but also our ambitions, and so more and more the food at…

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My mother was not a country girl. She was a Brooklyn girl, born and raised in Flatbush, and then a Long Island…

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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

Fred Rogers was a children's-TV host, but he was not Captain Kangaroo or Officer Joe Bolton. He was an ordained Presbyterian minister…

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I was a bully in fifth and sixth grade. I wasn't one of the bullies - I wasn't strong or dominant enough…

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I had heard a lot of stories about my father and celebrities, most of them from his own mouth. In his stories,…

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A mob pelting pilloried wrongdoers with rotten vegetables would seem to have little in common with one doing the same with 140-character…

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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

Before the Beatles could give us 'The White Album', they had to achieve disorienting success.

— Tom Junod

I love many of the rock and rollers next up on altar of actuarial sacrifice more than I ever loved David Bowie.

— Tom Junod

No one would call me a great cook, but over years of cooking, for me, confidence has replaced ambition.

— Tom Junod

One of the great pleasures of reading Tom Wolfe - of still reading Tom Wolfe - is the sense of awe he…

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It is hard to decide whether Mark Zuckerberg is the most interesting boring person in the world or the most boring interesting…

— Tom Junod

Because I actually like cooking for people, people like what I cook for them.

— Tom Junod

I did not get into a fistfight with my father at my sister's wedding. My sister didn't have a wedding.

— Tom Junod

In a society in which the median age keeps advancing, we have no choice but to keep redefining youth.

— Tom Junod

I am the guilty gift-giver, which means that I am a gift-giver who lacks all sense of proportion.

— Tom Junod

Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven.

— Tom Junod

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

You don't have to love cooking to cook, but you have to do more than love baking to bake. You have to…

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Conservatives still attack feminism with the absurd notion that it makes its adherents less attractive to men; in truth, it is feminism…

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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