It's Hard To Imagine A Civilization Without

We Ought To Enjoy Our Food, We Ought To Take Time And Care And Prepare It Correctly, And We Ought To Have Fun Doing It And Make It A Communal Event.

I Love Good, Fresh Food Cooked By Someone Who Knows What He's Doing.

Cooking Is Just As Creative And Imaginative An Activity As Drawing, Or Wood Carving, Or Music. And Cooking Draws Upon Your Every Talent--science, Mathematics, Energy, History, Experience--and The More Experience You Have, The Less Likely Are Your Experiments To End In Drivel And Disaster. The More You Know, The More You Can Create.

Drama Is Very Important In Life: You Have To Come On With A Bang. You Never Want To Go Out With A Whimper. Everything Can Have Drama If It's Done Right. Even A Pancake.

Until I Discovered Cooking, I Was Never Really Interested In Anything.