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I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can gi...more

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The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

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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 no...more

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I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

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In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

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Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

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If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child

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But my favorite remained the basic roast chicken. What a deceptively simple dish. I had come to believe that one can judge the quality of a cook by hi...more

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I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. When one's hostess starts in with self-deprecation...more

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I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.

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...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.