Kate Christensen Quotations | Page 2

Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.

Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.

Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.

A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.

Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.

Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.

Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.

It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.