Any disaster is a learning process.

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

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.

The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.

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