Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
Always remember: If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who’s going to know?
I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.
A party without cake is really just a meeting.
People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I’m really against these people who try to show that they’re great patriots, because they’re not thinking, they’re just being hysterical.
It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.
This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!
I’d like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.
It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.
Dining with one’s friends and beloved family is certainly one of life’s primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.
A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.
The more you know, the more you can create. There’s no end to imagination in the kitchen.
Cooking is one failure after another, and that’s how you finally learn.
To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the same way for centuries.
It’s fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That’s what human life is all about – enjoying things.
How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?