I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.

I'm a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker.

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades

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.