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….

I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that on….

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone..

... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans..

...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it..

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.

It was there [Dijon], I now understand, that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and drink, to be me and not what I was expected to ….

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken..

Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit..

... I think we grieve forever, but that goes for love too, fortunately for us all..

[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….

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jit….

Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights….

Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions..

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers..

... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself..

I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less careful socially, and that….

. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no ….

There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk..

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the….

Probably the most satisfying soup in the world for people who are hungry, as well as for those who are tired or worried or cross or in debt or in a m….