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

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth.

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.