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

I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat.

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

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

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!