You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.