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

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

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.

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

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 Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.