This June I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen Colorado. For many years my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event for the past seven years my daughter Claudine has been my cooking partner on stage.

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004 I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

I say: If you don't know how to cook I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well call that friend and say 'Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?'

Food is not your best friend or enemy.

The magazine the daytime show we've always tried to write affordable accessible. Those are key words for us and I do mean us a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

I used food as a coping mechanism for many many years and it was my best friend for a long time.

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends good food and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food sleep friends love everything.

When I eat with my friends it is a moment of real pleasure when I really enjoy my life.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve I might as well starve where the food is good.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

If you really want to make a friend go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

My fitness trainer's English my physio's English some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.

The more anxious isolated and time-deprived we are the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family friends and neighbors we become less likely to call on them for help and they on us.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product not a person so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family but now I'm declaring it openly.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have fear it.

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have fear it.