How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

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.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.

But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.