I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing.

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

Tears mess up your makeup.

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

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.