Cooking Is One Failure After Another, And

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.

The Problem For Cookery-bookery Writers Like Me Is To Understand The Extent Of Our Readers' Experience. I Hope Have Solved That Riddle In My Books By Simply Telling Everything. The Experienced Cook Will Know To Skip Through The Verbiage, But The Explanations Will Be There For Those Who Still Need Them.

Cooking Was Taken With Such Seriousness In France That Even Ordinary Chefs Were Proud Of Their Profession. That's What Appealed To Me.

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.

Too Much Trouble," "too Expensive," Or "who Will Know The Difference" Are Death Knells For Good Food.