I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

Never apologize for your cooking.

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.

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

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

Tears mess up your makeup.

No one's more important than people.