Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.

If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar.

Fate likes to tease paranoids.'

modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.

The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt.

THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rudeAnd fled to the silence of sweet solitude.

The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.

A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so.

Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar.

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

It was so dry in Saskatchewan during the Depression that the trees were chasing the dogs.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

I just have a sense that Obama's not going to ultimately succeed in totally transforming America into something other than how it was founded.

British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.