Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.
[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.
Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.
What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.
80% of Italian cooking is done in a sauté pan.
The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place.