A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

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

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.

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