I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.