Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!