I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.

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.

Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

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