“Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon”

“Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”

“Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.”

“I think cooking should be about fun and family. I'm not a trained chef. I don't pretend to be and I think part of my appeal is that my approach to cooking is really relaxed and not rigid. There are no rules in my kitchen.”

“I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap and then you grow wings.”

“To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.”

“Love never abandons hope.”
Non umquam spem ponit amor.

“The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went.”

“The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.”

“I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.”