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

People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

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

...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.