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

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

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 think careful cooking is love, don't you?

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.