I don’t like gourmet cooking or “this” cooking or “that” cooking. I like good cooking.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something...

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

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.

Where would we be without salt?

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you’re afraid of it.

I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it’s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the...

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.

To food people, this is like making the Olympic team,

[Small wonder, then, that it was named] Cookbook of the Year … an important achievement in the field of culinary history.

Best National or Local Television Food Segment.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich