Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

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

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

My father was in charge of managing the farm.