Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body.

Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.

Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else.

A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen.

Salad is roughage and a French idea.