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

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

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.

For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.

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.

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