Sometimes I look up a recipe for chicken and tomatoes and end up cooking pork. The inspiration gets lost in translation.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

I love 'The Gourmet Cooking School Cookbook' by Dione Lucas. A huge source of information and inspiration. The book is organized by menu, and the recipes are unusual and exciting.

I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

I didn't cook that much as a kid. My mother was cooking, and I was her helper. We made dishes together.

Repeatedly opening the oven - or worse, taking out the turkey to baste it - slows down the momentum of cooking.