The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.

I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

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.

Any disaster is a learning process.

I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat.

Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which leftover vegetables or sauces and a few fresh items are added.