I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.