Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.

Personally, I don't think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I've often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner, ever?

Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden -- so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.

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.

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.