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

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.

One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.