You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

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

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.

In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life.