Any Job Worth Doing Is Worth Doing

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.

You're Getting To Know Who The Great Chefs Are Through Their Books.

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.

You Don't Know When Inspiration Is Going To Come. But You Have To Be Aware Of What's Going On Around You, So That At Any Moment, When Inspiration Happens, You're Ready For It And You Interpret It.

With Passion, If You See The First Asparagus Of The Springtime And You Become Passionate About It, So Much The Better, But Three Weeks Later, When You’ve Seen That Asparagus Every Day Now, Passions Have Subsided. What’s Going To Make You Treat The Asparagus The Same? It’s The Desire.