I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

I could see it wasn't going to be easy. I couldn't give a franchise to any old greasy spoon. And I knew the chicken had to be cooked the way I told them to cook it if it was going to be as popular as it could be.

I've got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess.