“ But if you're gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . . Nick Cave
“ I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat. Anastacia Oaikhena
“ I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it. Anthony Bourdain
“ THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY There's a rule for proper dosesin the dinner-eaters lore:one should stop the filling processwhile one still has room for more. And if someone at the tablehad reminded… Piet Hein
“ You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. Charles Kuralt
“ The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. Anita Diament
“ Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening. Art Buchwald
“ I have heard that the French like to say, "Nobody grows old during a happy occasion at the dining table." With such wonderful family and friends all around us for Mitchell's and Stacie's wedding, I kn… James Hauenstein
“ HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end.CLAUDIUS Al… William Shakespeare
“ Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining. Danny Meyer
“ Curiously, among the few survivors from this culinary onslaught is one that is most difficult to understand: the fish knife. Though it remains the standard instrument for dealing with fish of all kind… Bill Bryson
“ To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations. Oscar Wilde
“ Conversations were struck up between strangers, regular diners as well as infrequent customers, as if united by a sense of gratitude at the sheer unlikeliness of it all - a high achievement of industr… Simon Bradley