A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.

In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar.

modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.

Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.

The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.