In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.