Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.

I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.

When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.