gastronomy is and always has been connected with its sister art of love.

. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people . . . dining in a good home.

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.

since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!