One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.

Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

I believe in red meat. I often said: red meat and gin.

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.