When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

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

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

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