It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one ….

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence..

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal change….

People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love,….

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..

Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations..

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring..

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, coo….

...I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after….

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

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet..

This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they are made of the same things an….

Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation..

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts ….

It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in order to ….

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….

In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many thing….

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman..

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life..

On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful t….

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove..