Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden -- so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.

I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.

The egg can be your best friend if you just give it the right break

I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

There are reasons, and then there are excuses.

Any disaster is a learning process.

Never apologize for your cooking.