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

I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.

Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.