Delectations: My Life over a Hot Typewriter

People keep asking me why and how I write cookbooks. Being for the moment in a confiding mood (a condition not always appreciated by my friends), I will now attempt to oblige them.

The “why” is easy: I am interested in cooking and I know how to explain it to others. It is an inescapable fact of life that you get paid not for what you would like to do but for what you can do; it is fortunate when, as in my case, the two coincide.