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

I believe in red meat. I often said: red meat and gin.

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

Never apologize for your cooking.

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

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

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.