It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.
I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.
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 might as well warm up something frozen.
When you cook, you never stop learning. That's the fascination of it all.
If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.
Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless you do it well, with love and originality, you have a flop on your hands.
There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.
Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.
Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.
There is no humor in heaven.
There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.