Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

Anyone can make a good roast chicken.

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

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

I have no formal culinary training, right.

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.