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

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

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

Life itself is the proper binge.

It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.