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

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 measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.

When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.

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

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