I Love Garlic, And I Use It

Today, Because I Want To Be Gentle On My Back, I Listen To Jazz.

We Lived In St. Tropez When I Was Young, And There Were A Lot Of Vietnamese Refugees In France At The Time, After The War. My Mother Had Many Vietnamese Friends Who Entertained A Lot, And She Was Taught How To Make That Spring Roll. She Would Make Them All The Time.

It Was My First Day Working At Tour D'argent, A Famous Restaurant In Paris, In 1982, And They Were Celebrating Their 400th Anniversary. I Am In The Fish Station And After Many Mistakes, Including Cutting Myself After 30 Seconds In That Kitchen, The Chef Said, "make A Hollandaise Sauce With 32 Yolks." It Takes Me Forever To Separate The Yolks From The Whites, And I Put Them In A Bowl And Try To Go Close To The Stove, But The Stove Is Way Too Hot For Me.

The Importance Of Reading, For Me, Is That It Allows You To Dream. Reading Not Only Educates, But Is Relaxing And Allows You To Feed Your Imagination - Creating Beautiful Pictures From Carefully Chosen Words.

At 15, I Had To Choose A Vocational School, And I Was Delighted, Of Course, To Go To Culinary School. But Learning The Basics Was Not As Exciting As Being The Chef I Am Today.