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

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.

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.

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

I would probably never have learned to cook.

Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.

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