Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

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.

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

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.