No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life.