Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

I'm a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker.

Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save it by buying fresh foods in season or in large supply, when they are cheapest and usually best, and you prepare them from scratch at home. Why pay for someone else's work, when if you know how to do it, you can save all that money for yourself?

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.

I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

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