I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

Tears mess up your makeup.

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.

When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

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.