Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty.

I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

Any disaster is a learning process.

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.