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

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

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

With enough butter, anything is good

...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.