You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Julia ChildIn France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.
Julia ChildThe more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.
Julia Child