Cooking done with care is an act of love.

Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.

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

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

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.

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

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.