I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Fat gives things flavor.

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

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