There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.

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.

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye

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

The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt.

A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.