There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor.

In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say.

If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.

I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.