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.

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.

One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.