I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say.

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

It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.