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