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

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

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create.

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.