Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train..

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterra….

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment..

The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before put….

It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking..

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult..

Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best you can by shoes a….

Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire..

I would probably never have learned to cook..

Every day holds the possibility of a miracle..

I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends..

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love..

It isnt only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington - I believe by Lord Ellesmere - that when….

An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out..

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again..