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.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

No one's more important than people.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.

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

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