Great Cooking Favors The Prepared Hands.

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

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.

You Know, My Parents Had A Restaurant. And I Left Home, Actually, In 1949, When I Was 13 Years Old, To Go Into Apprenticeship. And Actually When I Left Home, Home Was A Restaurant - Like I Said, My Mother Was A Chef. So I Can't Remember Any Time In My Life, From Age 5, 6, That I Wasn't In A Kitchen.

Probably A Mistake, You Know, That People Make In America, To Think That All Great Chefs Are A Male... I'm Still The Only Male In The Family Who Went Into That Business.

Fortunately, I Knew The Cardinal Rule Of Getting On With One's Fellow Cooks. It Applies In Any Kitchen And Can Be Summed Up In Two Short Words: Bust Ass.