Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.
I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.
For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
When you have made as many mistakes as I have, then you can be as good as me.
Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations.
A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.
Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.