If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

I'm a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker.

Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.

I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing.