I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Life itself is the proper binge.
Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.
Before Julia Child there was only onion dip.
or simply:
