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

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.

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

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.