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.

Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.