On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass...and I ground them in little batches in my grinder.

The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.

There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass...and I ground them in little batches in my grinder.

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.