I got picked on a lot even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie long in the baking never quite done.

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

Baking cookies is comforting and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.