It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else - it's so beautiful, and there's that location, and the sense of the free spirit. Who couldn't become ravenous in such a place?

A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.

Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.