I think that I had a very clear vision when I started writing cookbooks what I wanted it to be, and that you would open the book, that you would look at the photograph and go, that looks delicious. And then you would look at the recipe and say, I can actually make that and I can make it with ingredients I can find in the grocery store.

Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

All my life I dreamed of an apartment in Paris where I could cook, and now I have one, on the Left Bank.

You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!