Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.

Wine makes every meal an occasion.

Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.

Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of the most exacting professions. They must be blessed - or cursed, whichever way you care to look at it - with what is called the artistic temperament, which means that if they are to act or cook at all well, it cannot be for duds or dummies.

Chicken may be eaten constantly without becoming nauseating.