As You Get Older, You Shouldn't Waste

Fake Food -- I Mean Those Patented Substances Chemically Flavored And Mechanically Bulked Out To Kill The Appetite And Deceive The Gut -- Is Unnatural, Almost Immoral, A Bane To Good Eating And Good Cooking.

The More You Know, The More You Can Create. There's No End To Imagination In The Kitchen.

One Of The Secrets, And Pleasures, Of Cooking Is To Learn To Correct Something If It Goes Awry; And One Of The Lessons Is To Grin And Bear It If It Cannot Be Fixed.

Many Of The Delicious Soups You Eat In French Homes And Little Restaurants Are Made Just This Way, With A Leek-and-potato Base To Which Leftover Vegetables Or Sauces And A Few Fresh Items Are Added.

In The 1960s, You Could Eat Anything You Wanted, And Of Course, People Were Smoking Cigarettes And All Kinds Of Things, And There Was No Talk About Fat And Anything Like That, And Butter And Cream Were Rife. Those Were Lovely Days For Gastronomy, I Must Say.