A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.

Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.