Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures.

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.

People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.