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

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing.

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.