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

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.