It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.

You have to do it and do it, until you get it right.

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty.

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.