The Power of Comfort

"Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power, has that ability to comfort." - Norman Kolpas

On French Food

"Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories." - Beverley Baxter

Food = Medicine

"Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food." - Hippocrates

Wine is Art

"Making good wine is a skill. Fine wine is an art." - Robert Mondavi

Wine for Lunch

"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?" - W.C. Fields

Hygenic?

"Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages." - Louis Pasteur

Poetry

"Wine is bottled poetry." - Robert Louis Stevenson

Ben Franklin on Wine

"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy." - Benjamin Franklin

Man Made Wine

"God made only water, but man made wine." - Victor Hugo

Shakespeare on Wine

"Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used." - Shakespeare, Othello

Wine Quotes Week

"Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babies, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts." - John Stuart Blackie

Pizza Feng Shui

"My idea of feng shui is to have them arrange the pepperoni in a circle on my pizza." - Unknown

Belushi - owe's what?

"I owe it all to little chocolate donuts." - John Belushi

Fear is Failure

"The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a 'What the hell?' attitude." - Julia Child

Eating: Tiresome or Pleasurable?

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. - Voltaire

Breakfast before Work

"Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first." - Josh Billings

Vegetables purpose are to accompany meat.

"Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat." - Fran Lebowitz

On Bagels' Relationship to Doughnuts

"A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed." - George Rosenbaum

Spanish Ladies & Chocolate

"The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church." - Jean-Antheleme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste (1825)

Chocolate Therapy

"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already." - Dave Barry

All Chocolates are Well-liked

"I never met a chocolate I didn't like." - Deanna Troi, Star Trek: The Next Generation

Chocolate Food Groups

"There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles." - Unknown

Thomas Jefferson on Chocolate

"The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain." - Thomas Jefferson

Mondays are Chocolate Days

"Chocolate is nature’s way of making up for Mondays." - Anonymous

Chocolate Quotes Week!

"What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate." - Katherine Hepburn

Red meat isn't bad...

"Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!" - Tommy Smothers

Pavarotti on Eating

"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating." - Luciano Pavarotti

Eat, drink....

"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you may work." - Unknown

Julia on Wine

"When a sommelier asked Julia Child to name her favorite wine, she replied, 'Gin.' " - Told by a friend at a public memorial after her death

American Dressing

"I don't think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we're stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians and Caesarians." - Pat McNelis