Your uniqueness is your power. Embrace it and let it shine.
You are stronger than you think and more capable than you imagine.
I am a better person when I have less on my plate.
Food may well kill me, but it’s also what has made life such a pleasure.
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
Whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all if it hasn’t been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn’t poached eggs unless it’s been stolen in the dead of the night.
She felt so lost and lonely. One last chile in walnut sauce left on the platter after a fancy dinner couldn't feel any worse than she did. How many times had she eaten one of those treats, standing by herself in the kitchen, rather than let it be thrown away. When nobody eats the last chile on the plate, it's usually because none of them wants to look like a glutton, so even though they'd really like to devour it, they don't have the nerve to take it. It was as if they were rejecting that stuffed pepper, which contains every imaginable flavour; sweet as candied citron, juicy as pomegranate, with the bit of pepper and the subtlety of walnuts, that marvelous chile in the walnut sauce. Within it lies the secret of love, but it will never be penetrated, and all because it wouldn't feel proper.
I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.
There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realise, we usually get what we want – or near enough.
It’s been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.
I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other; but the great question is ‘What?