I'm a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker.

I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.

Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

I love to teach - that's my role.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.