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.

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.

Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.