There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables.

Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off.

She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.