One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again
I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.
Romance is the icing but love is the cake.
My father was in charge of managing the farm.
I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.