A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.
Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers.
An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.
... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.
This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they are made of the same things and even cooked almost the same way, an oyster soup should never be called a stew, nor stew soup.
There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.