“You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.”

“To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.”

“The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.”

“If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.”

“You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.”

“This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!”

“I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.”