Deirdre O'Kane Quotes

I love any type of cheese, preferably on a large board with a glass of Chateauneuf-du-Pape.

I was always inspired by restaurants like La Tulipe in Manhattan. You'd walk right by and say, 'Oh what a lovely house.' You didn't realize there was a restaurant behind the door.

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris.

I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

When I am up in Paris then the restaurant which has remained my favourite for the past decade is Guy Savoy. The menu is huge, sophisticated and very creative but I keep to simple choices.

Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate.

One of my favorites to order in fancy restaurants is escargot.

I think my level of cuisine was pretty good even before I came to France, but it's the wine here that's really improved my palette - when I have it, anyway. It's meant to be good for you, right?

At my dinner parties, I like to serve cheese after the main course because you still have red wine in the glass, and it goes very well with the cheese. And that is what they do in France, and I think they set a good example.

Who doesn't like to get dressed up and eat good food?

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whiskey, and a dog to eat the rare steak.

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? ... I, for one, would much rather swoon over a few thin slices of prime beefsteak, or one small serving of chocolate mousse, or a sliver of foie gras than indulge to the full on such nonentities as fat-free gelatin puddings.

Now filet mignon come with every meal. I swear to God that I'm so high, Feel like i am going up a hill.

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

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