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 think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.