“The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it If youre convinced that cooking is drudgery, youre never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.”

“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.”

“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.”

“Im going to break one of the rules of the trade here. Im going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just rememberits always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time ...”

“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.”

“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”

“Hard work should be rewarded by good food.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”