“ The incarnation took all that properly belongs to our humanity and delivered it back to us, redeemed. All of our inclinations and appetites and capacities and yearnings are purified and gathered up an… Thomas Howard
“ I propose a toast to mirth; be merry! Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and the digest. let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy the depths! Live, O cr… Victor Hugo
“ [The] dinner party is a true proclamation of the abundance of being -- a rebuke to the thrifty little idolatries by which we lose sight of the lavish hand that made us. It is precisely because no one… Robert Farrar Capon
“ ... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection. E.A. Bucchianeri