Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it

At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny power over food.

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.

... I think we grieve forever, but that goes for love too, fortunately for us all.

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.