Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

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 would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth.

People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the same way for centuries.

The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.