As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

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

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it -- and, more important, I like to give it.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.