Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.

the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create.

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life

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

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it -- and, more important, I like to give it.