Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

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.

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.