What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey, the extra vegetables.
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand...
How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?
If you're afraid of butter, use cream.
When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really...
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.
Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.
Non-cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment but if cooking is evanescent so is the ballet.
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
You must have discipline to have fun.
I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
Life itself is the proper binge.
I think the inner person is the most important. ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.