Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art.

The pleasure of eating something because it is expensive has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of good cuisine.

A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.

Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

Never write more than two pages on any subject.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.