I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.

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

The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.

Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.

Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

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.