If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.

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

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.

I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.