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"I don't believe in low-fat cooking."
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"I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants."

"Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store."

"My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes."

"French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way."

"Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on."

"I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking."

"Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore."
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"Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies."

"There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside."

"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

"Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on."

"But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it."

"You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over."
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