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

Cooking done with care is an act of love.

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

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.

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

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

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.