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.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else - it's so beautiful, and there's that location, and the sense of the free spirit. Who couldn't become ravenous in such a place?

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

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

Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.