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 ….

The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous f….

death ... so seldom happens nowadays in the awesome quiet of a familiar chamber. Most of us die violently, thanks to the advance of science and warfa….

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind..

In spite of my conviction that a group of deliberately assembled relatives can be one of the dullest, if not most dangerous, gatherings in the world,….

Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat..

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly..

I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished m….

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures..

. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . .….

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!.

One martini is just right. Two martinis are too many. Three martinis are never enough..

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight.

A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has nev….

old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving..

Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly thro….

Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the….

Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers..

A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer..

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.

Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, i….