It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

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

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.

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

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.

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.