The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

With enough butter, anything is good

There are reasons, and then there are excuses.