Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

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

Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

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

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.