If you have never tasted a braised vegetable, you'll find it is a revelation.

No vegetable exists which is not better slightly undercooked.

The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you're afraid of it.

Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.

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.