Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

Cuisine is not invariable like a Codex formula. But one must guard against tampering with the essential bases.

If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.

Before judging a thin man, one must get some information. Perhaps he was once fat.