{"author":"Kate Christensen","author_id":"Kate+Christensen","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.","author":"Kate Christensen","tags":["time","sunset","together "],"id":11969,"author_id":"Kate+Christensen"},{"text":"Now that I'm 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there's time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I'll take what I can get.","author":"Kate Christensen","tags":["time","goals","youth "],"id":14230,"author_id":"Kate+Christensen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Kate Christensen","tags":["world","better","egg "],"id":95368,"author_id":"Kate+Christensen"},{"text":"David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.","author":"Kate Christensen","tags":["chef","teachers","talk "],"id":98969,"author_id":"Kate+Christensen"},{"text":"In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.","author":"Kate Christensen","tags":["life","food","winter "],"id":107156,"author_id":"Kate+Christensen"},{"text":"Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.","author":"Kate Christensen","tags":["time","myself","alone "],"id":120144,"author_id":"Kate+Christensen"},{"text":"Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.","author":"Kate Christensen","tags":["friends","friendship","kate-christensen","love","lovejoy","the-astral"],"id":140631,"author_id":"Kate+Christensen"},{"text":"The New Nordic diet originated in 2004, when the visionary chefs Rene Redzepi and Claus Meyer called a symposium of regional chefs to address the public's increasing consumption of processed foods, additives, highly refined grains, and mass-produced poultry and meat.","author":"Kate Christensen","tags":["meat","new","visionary "],"id":163981,"author_id":"Kate+Christensen"},{"text":"I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.","author":"Kate Christensen","tags":["work","internet","see "],"id":175696,"author_id":"Kate+Christensen"},{"text":"After my experiences with the 5:2 diet, I wasn't interested in a short-term fix that would fail later. I wanted a way of eating that made me lose weight without feeling deprived.","author":"Kate Christensen","tags":["me","eating","fail "],"id":192369,"author_id":"Kate+Christensen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}