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.

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.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

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

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.