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.

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

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden -- so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.

I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.