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 was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the same way for centuries.

Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.