I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

I think the best shortcut is to choose really simple recipes. Because I think you can make simple recipes that are as delicious as complicated ones.

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

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

The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.