I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of bugs, the better.

In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.

My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.

But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

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