The way you make an omelet reveals your character.

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.

I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.

[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.