If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.
Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.
A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.