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 his or her roast chicken. Above all, it should taste like chicken: it should be so good that even a perfectly simple, buttery roast should be a delight.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

noodles are not only amusing but delicious ...

The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot ...

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

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.