Dinner was a riot, but the food was bland, so I doused it with pepper spray. The chef wanted to protest, but he didn’t, because I had the pepper spray.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

I love children. Eating them, that is.

Every cuisine has its characteristic ‘flavor principle,’ Rozin contends, whether it is tomato-lemon-oregano in Greece; lime-chili in Mexico; onion-lard-paprika in Hungary, or, in Samin’s Moroccan dish, cumin-coriander-cinnamon-ginger-onion-fruit. (And in America? Well, we do have Heinz...

Why don’t you like the foods I like?” he asks sometimes. “Why don’t you like the foods I make?” I answer.

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman.”[Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson’s cooking.]

Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man. When the other krauts saw him drink water in the Beer Hall they should have known he was not to be trusted.

I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat.

French culinary tradition was a frontier, not a religion.” If a legendary recipe could be improved upon, then let the gods beware.

I don’t care if you’re doing haute cuisine or burgers and pizza, just do it right.