Tara Bench Quotations

We were there for the press conference. For a while, she was on house arrest, so she invited every department up to her farm in Bedford for dinner once a week. One night, the chef of Le Cirque restaurant was cooking for us, and that was really great. Her house was still being furnished, so here we were sitting in this unfurnished room with Martha.

This is why you tie a roast together, to create uniform cooking. Or why you tuck in the legs of the chicken, so they're not sticking out and getting burned.

If you don't have a rack, the meat will still cook beautifully, but it will end up cooking and steaming in its own juices, which would be steaming.

I love Sara Moulton. I love her style of teaching and cooking.

In New York, I could charge $100 for this same class and people wouldn't think twice about it. But I would have to rent some space to do it.

You definitely see more of Martha's real personality. She's very witty and has a good sense of humor and is very smart. But you also see her strong personality come out, where she's talking over people and doing what she wants. That's who she is. I have to admit, I miss the parts of her show where she would talk about an industry, and go to a piano factory or show how peaches are harvested. But I guess you can get that content in a magazine.