In Spite Of Food Fads, Fitness Programs,

Sometimes ... It Takes Me An Entire Day To Write A Recipe, To Communicate It Correctly. It's Really Like Writing A Little Short Story.

...the Waiters Carried Themselves With A Quiet Joy, As If Their Entire Mission In Life Was To Make Their Customers Feel Comfortable And Well Tended.

In France Cooking Is A Serious Art Form And A National Sport. I Think The French Enjoy The Complication Of The Art Form And The Cooking For Cooking's Sake. You Can Talk With A Concierge Or Police Officer About Food In France As A General Rule. It Is Not The General Rule Here. Classical Cuisine, Which I Hope We Are Going Back To, Means Certain Ways Of Doing Things And Certain Ways Of Not Doing Things. If You Know Classical French Cooking You Can Do Anything. If You Don't Know The Basics, You Turn Out Slop.

I Think Anyone Who Is A Carnivore Needs To Understand That Meat Does Not Originally Come In These Neat Little Packages.

I Was Kind Of An Innocent Hayseed From A Middle-class, Utterly Nonintellectual Background.