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

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

Any disaster is a learning process.