Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers.

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

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.

For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.

... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for.

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.

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.