The art of civil conversation begins at birth. Then goes from the dinner table to the schoolroom, to interaction among friends, to the work place, and on to other places where all manner of social...

The trouble with eating Italian is that 5 or 6 days later, you’re hungry again.

I like to get to-go boxes at restaurants where not only did I not eat in, but apparently their patrons didn’t either, judging by how much food they left on their plates.

Smaller plates discourage gluttony. But so does dining with dwarves.

But if you’re gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten . . .

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one’s own relations.

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

HAMLET […] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that’s the...

Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well as to satiate the appetite, that,my...

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

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

I once made love to a taco shell stuffed with rancid meat and watery tomato bits. It was the best sex I’ve ever served to an unsuspecting customer.