I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat.

I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing.

No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.

Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!

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

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.

My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off.