Fat Gives Things Flavor.

In France Cooking Is A Serious Art Form And A National Sport. I Think The French Enjoy The Complication Of The Art Form And The Cooking For Cooking's Sake. You Can Talk With A Concierge Or Police Officer About Food In France As A General Rule. It Is Not The General Rule Here. Classical Cuisine, Which I Hope We Are Going Back To, Means Certain Ways Of Doing Things And Certain Ways Of Not Doing Things. If You Know Classical French Cooking You Can Do Anything. If You Don't Know The Basics, You Turn Out Slop.

I Was Never A Spy. I Was With The Oss Organization. We Had A Number Of Women, But We Were All Office Help.

I'm Not Wild About Those Twenty-four Hour Marinades

We Ought To Enjoy Our Food, We Ought To Take Time And Care And Prepare It Correctly, And We Ought To Have Fun Doing It And Make It A Communal Event.

The More Experience You Have, The More Interesting Cooking Is Because You Know What Can Happen To The Food. In The Beginning You Can Look At A Chicken And It Doesn't Mean Much, But Once You Have Done Some Cooking You Can See In That Chicken A Parade Of Things You Will Be Able To Create.