Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

I'm a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker.

A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

People who love to eat are always the best people.