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

I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of bugs, the better.

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

With enough butter, anything is good

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.