Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades

You have to do it and do it, until you get it right.