The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.

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

The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.