"This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!"
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"The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken."
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"Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!"
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"Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?"
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"You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking."
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"...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing."
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"It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it."
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"In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say."
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"Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal."
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"Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake."
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"It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things."
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"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."
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"I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth."
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"I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole."
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"The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time."
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"In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for."
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"Romance is the icing but love is the cake."
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"In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport."
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"When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions."
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"Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn."
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