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.

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you?

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

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

I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.