Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What’s important are the individuals you’ve influenced along the way.
Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!
I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.
Fake food – I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut – is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.
I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.
I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.
I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.
Personally, I don’t think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I’ve often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner, ever?
I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it’s hard for young people today, don’t you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.
In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.
I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat.
Pro-choice is the only way to be – because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.
Because I’ve done a lot of television, I’m sort of a generalist. I’m not a pastry cook, but I’ve had to learn a certain amount about it. I’m not a baker, though I’ve had to learn how to do it. I’m sort of a general cook.
We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.
The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.
There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty.
One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
Well, all I know is this – nothing you ever learn is really wasted, and will sometime be used.
I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved the people, the food, the lay of the land, the civilized atmosphere, and the generous pace of life.
But how nice it is that one can come to know someone just through correspondence, and become really passionate friends.