Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done.

People who do not accept the new, grow old very quickly.

Fish without wine is like egg without salt.

Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.

So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.

Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

Above all, keep it simple.