1. “Cooking may be a creative art, but it’s also a wonderful full-time hobby.”
2. “It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.”
3. “A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe”
4. “You must have discipline to have fun.”
5. “The secret of happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.”
6. “To be a good cook you have to have love of the good, a love of hardwork, an a love of creating..”
7. “A house without cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without formage, a dinner without wine.”
8. “Eating is the secret to good cooking.”
9. “You have to do it and do it, until you get it right.”
10. “One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.”
11. “If you’re not ready to fail, you’re not going to learn how to cook.”
12. “No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.”
13. “Any disaster is a learning process.”
14. “One of the secrets and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin ad bear it if it cannot be fixed.”
15. “The more you know, the more you can create. there’s no end to imagination in the kitchen.”
16. “Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life.”
17. “Romance is the icing but love is the cake.”
18. “Fat gives things flavor.”
19. “Sometimes… it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It’s really like writing a little short story.”
20. “Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.”
21. “A party without cake is really just a meeting.”
22. “There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables.”
23. “The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It’s doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.”
24. “Freshness is essential. That makes all the different.”
25. “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
26. “No one’s more important than people.”
27. “I’m afraid that surprise, shock and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.”
28. “People who love to eat are always the best people.”
29. “Cooking is one failure after another, and that’s how you finally learn.”
30. “There are reasons and then there are excuses.”
