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

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.

Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.