It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace.

You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.

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

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.