"It's all very well to have fast food, and you need it in this day and age, but now and again it's nice to do things sort of slowly and gradually." -- Clarissa Dickson Wright "I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding." -- Alton Brown "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -- J. R. R. Tolkien "You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients." -- Julia Child "So, beer or wine? Ultimately, beer is good, wine is good and sometimes there's nothing like a good gin and tonic. Let's just not be beastly to one another, and let's be flexible in our drinking choices." -- Nicholas Pashley "'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers." -- Romeo and Juliet: act 4, scene 2 "The host had gone below to the cellar, and had brought up bottles of ruby, straw-coloured, and golden drinks, which had ripened long ago in lands where no fogs are, and had since lain slumbering in the shade. Sparkling and tingling after so long a nap, they pushed at their corks to help the corkscrew (like prisoners helping rioters to force their gates), and danced out gaily." -- Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood "Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent." -- Epictetus "Food is our common ground, a universal experience." -- James Beard "Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." -- Mark Twain "I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when you’re alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartment’s redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat." -- The Waiter, Waiter Rant