tender escargots bobbing in garlicky butter were one of my happiest discoveries! - Julia Child

I was in pure, flavorful heaven at the Cordon Bleu.

I believe in red meat. I've often said: red meat and gin.

When American experts began making “helpful” suggestions about how the French could “increase productivity and profits,” the average Frenchman would shrug, as if to say: “These notions of yours are all very fascinating, no doubt, but we have a nice little business here just as it is. Everybody makes a decent living. Nobody has ulcers. I have time to work on my monograph about Balzac, and my foreman enjoys his espaliered pear trees. I think, as a matter of fact, we do not wish to make these changes that you suggest.