I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

I’ve long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs.

The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups.

There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

Hands are our earliest tools. Cooking starts with the hands which are so sensitive that when they touch something they transmit messages to your brain about texture and temperature.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.