It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else - it's so beautiful, and there's that location, and the sense of the free spirit. Who couldn't become ravenous in such a place?

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

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

The egg can be your best friend if you just give it the right break