If You're Not Ready To Fail, You're

In France, Cooking Is A Serious Art Form And A National Sport.

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.

In The 1970s We Got Nouvelle Cuisine, In Which A Lot Of The Old Rules Were Kicked Over. And Then We Had Cuisine Minceur, Which People Mixed Up With Nouvelle Cuisine But Was Actually Fancy Diet Cooking.

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.

Just Speak Very Loudly And Quickly, And State Your Position With Utter Conviction, As The French Do, And You'll Have A Marvelous Time!