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

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it -- and, more important, I like to give it.