The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you?

In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life

Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.