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.

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

Life itself is the proper binge.

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.