The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.

But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.

I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades