The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

Fat gives things flavor.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

Personally, I don't think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I've often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner, ever?

Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.