Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious..
I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand..
It was as close as I had ever come to having power over someone, and I equated it with love..
I get recognized a lot now. It's great..
In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind..
I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher level..
Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat..
A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet..
The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another..
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks..
He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of o….
Faith engenders courage; and also requires it..
There were a lot of days when I thought maybe this isn't what I should be doing. There've been a lot of days where you get to the point where you're ….
You don't take on anything unless there's fear..
Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us..
You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!.
Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress..
Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy..
The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people..
They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up..
You don't need a silver fork to eat good food..