Life Itself Is The Proper Binge.

I Had My First French Meal And I Never Got Over It. It Was Just Marvelous. We Had Oysters And A Lovely Dry White Wine. And Then We Had One Of Those Lovely Scalloped Dishes And The Lovely, Creamery Buttery Sauce. Then We Had A Roast Duck And I Don't Know What Else.

Fat Gives Things Flavor.

In The 1970s We Got Nouvelle Cuisine, In Which A Lot Of The Old Rules Were Kicked Over. And Then We Had Cuisine Minceur, Which People Mixed Up With Nouvelle Cuisine But Was Actually Fancy Diet Cooking.

Noncooks Think It's Silly To Invest Two Hours' Work In Two Minutes' Enjoyment; But If Cooking Is Evanescent, So Is The Ballet.

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.