I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth.

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

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

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

I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it -- and, more important, I like to give it.

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.