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

There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans have left behind them, both good and evil, and that any such spiritual accumulation can stay there forever, past definition of such a stern word.

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny power over food.

People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.