Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.

In 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.

I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of bugs, the better.

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