Kitchen Girl Quotes

“Society has done so much damage to the psyche of the woman being to the extent that she now thinks that her greatest achievement in life is to be a good kitchen girl and a sexy bedroom girl.”
― Topsy Gift, I AM A WOMAN I AM A HUMAN: UNLEASHING THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL OF WOMEN

“I kind of baked a lobster potpie,” she said.
“How does one kind of bake a lobster potpie?”
She chuckled, then traipsed back down the stairs. I followed her featherweight steps, one after another, as she floated into the kitchen, explaining how she’d begun making her way through a Barefoot Contessa cookbook she’d found on her second night here.
“Anything you want,” she said, pointing to a notepad splayed out on the island, “you put on the list, and I think Maurice just goes to the market and buys it.”
I traced Katie’s loopy letters— raspberries, ricotta, good vanilla— while she cut into the pie’s golden crust. Steam escaped, and my mouth watered.
“Two sticks of butter,” she said, licking the back of the knife after she served us each a slice.”
― Lauren Okie, Tropesick