Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

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.

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.

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

... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.

[Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a pretty woman.