I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

In my year in France I had the change to enrol as a student for several months at a French cooking school. Of course being the only non-French pupil there it was very unnerving whenever the French head chef, seemingly forgetting that I was not French and had not been experiencing cooking school for the past 5 years, yelled at me to quickly make some caramel to glaze the chocolate éclairs. Lucky for me, I made some great friends who not only taught me how to make caramel and likewise delights, but will remain in my heart for the rest of my life.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. ~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story

When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. ~Laiko Bahrs

“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.”
- Marcel Boulestin

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” - Virginia Woolf