Zitat des Tages von Diane Mott Davidson:
When I make a recipe for the first time and it's fabulous, I know I'm in trouble because I don't know exactly what I did, and I can't replicate it.
What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.
Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.
One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.
The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have happen, but if one makes that a goal like, say, a literary writer has the goal of getting the Pulitzer Prize, that's so unpredictable.
I like cream cheese in just about anything.
When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.
In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.
The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?'