I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.
If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.
The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you’re afraid of it.
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.
Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless you do it well, with love and originality, you have a flop on your hands.
The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.
There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.
Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.
I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.