Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

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

There are reasons, and then there are excuses.

No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.

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