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

Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food.