Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

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.

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

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.

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.

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

With enough butter, anything is good