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.

Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.

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

Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best you can by shoes and bed, devote all the time and resources at your disposal to the building up of a fine kitchen. It will be, as it should be, the most comforting and comfortable room in the house.

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

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.