Great Cooking Favors The Prepared Hands.

This Is What A Family Is All About - One Another, Sitting Around The Table At Night. And It's Very, Very Important, I Think, For The Kid To Spend Time Not Only Around The Table Eating With Their Parents, But In The Kitchen.

If You Have Extraordinary Bread And Extraordinary Butter, It's Hard To Beat Bread And Butter.

Thirty, 40 Years Ago, More Than That Now, Even, The Cook Was Certainly At The Bottom Of The Social Scale. And Any Mother Would've Wanted Their Child To Marry A Doctor, A Lawyer, An Architect, Not A Cook. Now, We Are Genius, It's Different.

This June, I'll Travel Once Again To The Food And Wine Magazine Classic In Aspen, Colorado. For Many Years, My Dear Friend Julia Child And I Have Teamed Up To Teach Classes Together At The Event; For The Past Seven Years, My Daughter, Claudine, Has Been My Cooking Partner On Stage.

I Say: If You Don't Know How To Cook, I'm Sure You Have At Least One Friend Who Knows How To Cook. Well, Call That Friend And Say, 'can I Come Next Time And Can I Bring Some Food And Can I Come An Hour Or Two Hours Ahead And Watch You And Help You?'