It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of o….

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread..

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix..

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

All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off….

I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a pin with a garden hoe..

Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body..

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of o….

A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature..

[Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a p….

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….

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

It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté..

It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot be….

The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for….

Salad is roughage and a French idea..

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

Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other w….

Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love..

Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay egg….