Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.

Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.

No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.

Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

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