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

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

I believe in red meat. I often said: red meat and gin.

We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.