When I cook Thanksgiving in the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen, every tool I need is within arm's reach, groceries are delivered, and colleagues know better than to talk to me when I have that look on my face.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.