“Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals.”

“What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.”

“Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.”

“Baking was a science, precise, just mix it all together and let the oven do the work. But actually cooking, she couldn’t cook a tasty meal if her life depended on it.”

“sometimes i feel like a great chefwho has devoted his entire lifeto monastic study of the art of cooking& gathered the finest ingredients& built the most advanced kitchen& prepared the most exquisite mealso perfect, so delicious, so extraordinarymore astounding than any meal ever createdyet each day i stand in my window& watch ninety-seven percent of the worldwalk past my restaurantinto the mcdonald'sacross the street”

“Serving delicious food in its most delicious state."Cooking is as simple as that.”