Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life

No one's more important than people.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.