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

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

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth.

Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.