The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

Fat gives things flavor.

I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena

Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth.