Never apologize for your cooking.
I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.
The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.
A party without cake is really just a meeting.
There are reasons, and then there are excuses.
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.