A Homemade Life Quotes

“To most people, I guess, turning twenty-one is all about booze. To me, turning twenty-one was all about coconut. Booze is nice, but coconut is chewable, and when push comes to shove, I will always like eating better than drinking. Everyone has their priorities.”
― Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

“Even the Thanksgiving when her parents had just divorced, Hoosier Pie made the cut. ...They also, incidentally, made a pumpkin pie, but it fell on the floor, a classic example of survival of the fittest”
― Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

“Like most people who love to cook, I like the tangible things. I like the way the knife claps when it meets the cutting board. I like the haze of sweet air that hovers over a hot cake as it sits, cooling, on the counter. I like the way a strip of orange peel looks on an empty plate. But what I like even more are the intangible things: the familiar voices that fall out of the folds of an old cookbook, or the scenes that replay like a film reel across my kitchen wall. When we fall in love with a certain dish, I think that’s what we’re often responding to: that something else behind the fork or the spoon, the familiar story that food tells.”
― Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

“When someone dies, we tend to tell the same stories over and over: the happy ones, or the funny ones, or, at the very least, the poignant ones. We turn those stories this way and that, studying them like diamonds or ancient scrolls, taking note of every detail. We don’t tell the sad stories, or the ugly, warted ones. After a while, they fade like old newsprint, and we start to forget.”
― Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

“I think that what it all comes down to is winning hearts and minds. Underneath everything else, all the plans and goals and hopes, that's why we get up in the morning, why we believe, why we try, why we bake chocolate cakes. That's the best we can ever hope to do: to win hearts and minds, to love and be loved.”
― Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

“There's no time like the present to start eating chocolate with your greens.”
― Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

“it’s hard to love someone, I’ve found, when you’re preoccupied with holding your entire world firmly in place. Loving someone requires a certain amount of malleability, a willingness to be pulled along, at least occasionally, by another person’s will.”
― Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

“My father had coats the way old spinsters have cats.”
― Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

“Don't let socializing get between you and a platter of deviled eggs.”
― Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

“hell hath no fury like a woman starved.”
― Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table