I don't think you could have a 7 with a manual. But I can't see having a BMW sports sedan without a manual.

Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many haven't.

Vegetables to me are - I don't want to say the most exciting part of cooking, but certainly a very exciting part of cooking, because they continue to change. They come into season and they go through different phases.

When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.

Success is measured by the memories you create.

Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.

I don't think you could have a 7 with a manual. But I can't see having a BMW sports sedan without a manual.