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.

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which leftover vegetables or sauces and a few fresh items are added.

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

Never apologize for your cooking.

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

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