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

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.

I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.

...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.