You Must Have Discipline To Have Fun.

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.

Mastering The Art Of French Cooking... Doesn't Mean It Has To Be Fancy Cooking, Although It Can Be As Elaborate As You Wish.

I Found That The Recipes In Most - In All - The Books I Had Were Really Not Adequate. They Didn't Tell You Enough... I Won't Do Anything Unless I'm Told Why I'm Doing It. So I Felt That We Needed Fuller Explanations So That If You Followed One Of Those Recipes, It Should Turn Out Exactly Right.

I Admired The English Immensely For All That They Had Endured, And They Were Certainly Honorable, And Stopped Their Cars For Pedestrians, And Called You “sir” And “madam,” And So On. But After A Week There, I Began To Feel Wild. It Was Those Ruddy English Faces, So Held In By Duty, The Sense Of “what Is Done” And “what Is Not Done,” And Always Swigging Tea And Chirping, That Made Me Want To Scream Like A Hyena

You Learn To Cook So That You Don't Have To Be A Slave To Recipes. You Get What's In Season And You Know What To Do With It.