In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

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

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.