Any disaster is a learning process.

There are reasons, and then there are excuses.

My father was in charge of managing the farm.

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

Tears mess up your makeup.

Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.