I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.
Goodness, how much there is to learn about food!
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.
I am ridiculously high-maintenance.
I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one.
Trust is the glue that holds relationships together.
A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.