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

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best.

There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

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

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

Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.