A cookbook is only as good as its worst recipe. - Julia Child

My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week.

Dorothy says she ducks invitations to dine with young married people because she can’t, at her age, take the casserole any more — she described one composed of pork chops and canned Bing cherries, after which she came home and was sick.

I suddenly discovered that cooking was a rich and layered and endlessly fascinating subject. The best way to describe it is to say that I fell in love with French food- the tastes, the processes, the history, the endless variations, the rigorous discipline, the creativity, the wonderful people, the equipment, the rituals.