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.

I'm a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker.

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.

With enough butter, anything is good

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

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.

My father was in charge of managing the farm.