Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty.

You have to do it and do it, until you get it right.