When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about - more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.

When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.

People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is.