To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

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

Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.

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

I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth.