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

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

Tears mess up your makeup.