Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

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

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.

Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.

Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.