My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

I get up every day, do the best that I can do, and go home and have a good time.

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

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!

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.