Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen.

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.