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

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

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

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.

Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.