Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

I love to teach - that's my role.

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

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

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.