I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

- James Beard

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you…

- James Beard

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

- James Beard

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

- James Beard

The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you're afraid of it.

- James Beard

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

- James Beard

Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.

- James Beard

Goodness, how much there is to learn about food!

- James Beard

When you cook, you never stop learning. That's the fascination of it all.

- James Beard