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.

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

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.

It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy.

A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.

The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.