Be simple. Be honest. Don't overcook and don't undercook, but it's better to undercook than overcook.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.

Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless you do it well, with love and originality, you have a flop on your hands.

Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.

No vegetable exists which is not better slightly undercooked.

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.