When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

I think if you can take one or two things from a cookbook, it's successful.

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.

Anyone can make a good roast chicken.

Food is such an important part of our lives, and sometimes we tend to diminish the importance of that, because we rely on conveniences or because our lives are so complicated. We forget about those moments that we can actually share around the table with our family, with our friends, with our loved ones.