There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect.
One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you’re not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.
It’s fascinating to travel around Italy and realize just how many different ways they make spaghetti.
There’s a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.
Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.
Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, that’s when you start to see these different permutations.
The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.
Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.