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

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena

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

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

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

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.