Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

I love to teach - that's my role.

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

I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.

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

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.