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Cooking Done With Care Is An Act Of Love.

Cooking Is At Once One Of The Simplest And Most Gratifying Of The Arts, But To Cook Well One Must Love And Respect Food.

Give Me A Platter Of Choice Finnan Haddie, Freshly Cooked In Its Bath Of Water And Milk, Add Melted Butter, A Slice Or Two Of Hot Toast, A Pot Of Steaming Darjeeling Tea, And You May Tell The Butler To Dispense With The Caviar, Truffles And Nightingales' Tongues.

I Am Simply Of The Opinion That You Cannot Be Taught To Write. You Have To Spend A Lifetime In Love With Words.

When She Goes About Her Kitchen Duties, Chopping, Carving, Mixing, Whisking, She Moves With The Grace And Precision Of A Ballet Dancer, Her Fingers Plying The Food With The Dexterity Of A Croupier.