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.

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

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.

I would probably never have learned to cook.