I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?
I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises.
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.
Ah Padriac. I have often wondered if boys who have flaming red hair up top also have. . . yep.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another. And in my case, that's thousands of minutes I go through to get from one scene to the next and build it that way.
Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.