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 important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the same way for centuries.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

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.

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

I love to teach - that's my role.