Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.

There are reasons, and then there are excuses.

No one's more important than people.

The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.