Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.

Cooking done with care is an act of love.

Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.