Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.

The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad.

It isnt only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington - I believe by Lord Ellesmere - that when he landed at Dover in 1814, after six years absence from England, the first order he gave at the Ship Inn was for an unlimited supply of buttered toast.

Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.