I think careful cooking is love, don't you?

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

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.

Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

People who love to eat are always the best people.

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.