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.

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.