Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!

the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create.

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades

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.

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.

I'm a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker.

I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think if you have a preconceived idea before shopping, that makes it difficult. You have to have an open mind.