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

The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

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.

My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off.

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena