In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

I love to teach - that's my role.

There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty.

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create.

Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.