You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

You have to do it and do it, until you get it right.

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

It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy.

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

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.