We Should Enjoy Food And

Some People Like To Paint Pictures, Or Do Gardening, Or Build A Boat In The Basement. Other People Get A Tremendous Pleasure Out Of The Kitchen, Because Cooking Is Just As Creative And Imaginative An Activity As Drawing, Or Wood Carving, Or Music.

Because I've Done A Lot Of Television, I'm Sort Of A Generalist. I'm Not A Pastry Cook, But I've Had To Learn A Certain Amount About It. I'm Not A Baker, Though I've Had To Learn How To Do It. I'm Sort Of A General Cook.

When I Got To France I Realized I Didn't Know Very Much About Food At All. I'd Never Had A Real Cake. I'd Had Those Cakes From Cake Mixes Or The Ones That Have A Lot Of Baking Powder In Them. A Really Good French Cake Doesn't Have Anything Like That In It - It's All Egg Power.

I Found That The Recipes In Most - In All - The Books I Had Were Really Not Adequate. They Didn't Tell You Enough... I Won't Do Anything Unless I'm Told Why I'm Doing It. So I Felt That We Needed Fuller Explanations So That If You Followed One Of Those Recipes, It Should Turn Out Exactly Right.

Until I Discovered Cooking, I Was Never Really Interested In Anything.