Dying is a part of living, but only a very small part.
Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.
Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.
To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad.
The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.
It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.
If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.
Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony
We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.
Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.