...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food.

No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.