We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.