If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.

People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life.

Never apologize for your cooking.

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.

With enough butter, anything is good

The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.

But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.