The crowd is not us. It never is..

You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm..

In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'.

The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it..

A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from ….

You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are ….

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do..

Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be correct." He op….

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millenn….

Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost - a family, a moment o….