The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.

Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.

Chicken may be eaten constantly without becoming nauseating.

Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

Wine makes every meal an occasion.

The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.