The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day..

Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity..

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to ….

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed..

Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself..

Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, ha….

In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper i….

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased o….

The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food..

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best..