In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.
Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.
Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.
You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.
I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.
Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.
Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.
Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.
