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

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.

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.

Above all, keep it simple.

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

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