We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

I believe in red meat. I often said: red meat and gin.

I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.

The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.

No one's more important than people.