Your newest book written with Julia Child was just released in October 1999, and now only a couple of months later, it's already on bestseller lists all over the country.
Cooking is a fun occupation and our book shows the conviviality of two pals cooking together.
I think that we convey the idea that people should feel free when they cook, that they have fun, without worrying about the recipe itself. Cookbook writing is always a complete project with a beginning, middle and end. You have the whole project under your belt. I like the fact that it's always different to get to that end. My books tend to be very focused projects such as La Technique for very serious cooks, The Shortcut Cook which had fast and simple recipes, The Purposeful Cook which came out of a column that I wrote for The New York Times and had to do with cooking economically and Simple and Healthy Cooking which evolved from a project I did with the Cleveland Clinic.