“A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. ”

“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 ...”

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

“If you stand in a wheat field at this time of year, a few weeks from harvest, it's not hard to imagine you're looking at something out of mythology: all this golden sunlight brought down to earth, ...”

“You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have to go on working, and ...”

“I turned from my window. Suddenly it seemed odd for my neighbors on both sides to have visitors while I had none. For the first time, I felt lonely at 'Sconset."Let's cook," Frannie said energetica...”

“If anyone does not have three minutes in his life to make an omelette, then life is not worth living.”

“Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man. When the other krauts saw him drink water in the Beer Hall they should have known he was not to be trusted.”

“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.”