Quotes on Culinary Love

We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

All sorrows are less with bread.