I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.

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.

Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.