I Guess The Main Source Of Stress

One Of The Problems With Writing A Cookbook Is That Recipes Exist In The Moment.

My Childhood Wasn't Full Of Wonderful Culinary Memories.

Cooking Is Not About Convenience And It's Not About Shortcuts. Our Hunger For The Twenty-minute Gourmet Meal, For One-pot Ease And Prewashed, Precut Ingredients Has Severed Our Lifeline To The Satisfactions Of Cooking. Take Your Time. Take A Long Time. Move Slowly And Deliberately And With Great Attention.

I Can Make Dough In A Machine Faster Than I Can Make It By Hand, But I Want To Make It By Hand, Because I Want To Remember The Way It Feels. It's So Important For Me To Make It By Hand - Whether It's A Pasta Dough Or A Pâte Brisée. You Become Involved In It. You Become Personal With It. For Me It's Such A Wonderful Way To Get Satisfaction And Gratification When I'm Cooking.

Once You Understand The Foundations Of Cooking - Whatever Kind You Like, Whether It's French Or Italian Or Japanese - You Really Don't Need A Cookbook Anymore.