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

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

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

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

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

Any disaster is a learning process.