If You're Buying Tomatoes Pick Them Up

When I Got To France I Realized I Didn't Know Very Much About Food At All. I'd Never Had A Real Cake. I'd Had Those Cakes From Cake Mixes Or The Ones That Have A Lot Of Baking Powder In Them. A Really Good French Cake Doesn't Have Anything Like That In It - It's All Egg Power.

There Is Nothing Nicer Than A Kitchen Really Made For A Cook. Things That Are Designed To Be Used Always Have An Innate Beauty.

In France Cooking Is A Serious Art Form And A National Sport. I Think The French Enjoy The Complication Of The Art Form And The Cooking For Cooking's Sake. You Can Talk With A Concierge Or Police Officer About Food In France As A General Rule. It Is Not The General Rule Here. Classical Cuisine, Which I Hope We Are Going Back To, Means Certain Ways Of Doing Things And Certain Ways Of Not Doing Things. If You Know Classical French Cooking You Can Do Anything. If You Don't Know The Basics, You Turn Out Slop.

You Have To Do It And Do It, Until You Get It Right.

Fake Food -- I Mean Those Patented Substances Chemically Flavored And Mechanically Bulked Out To Kill The Appetite And Deceive The Gut -- Is Unnatural, Almost Immoral, A Bane To Good Eating And Good Cooking.