Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences.

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.

Love is my favorite drug

My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.

many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will.

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

On Friday a thief, on Sunday a King...the man Jesus Christ laid death in his grave!

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

It's a great feeling to be a part of something - see it from beginning to end - and it's a rare thing that anyone gets to do in any business.

Organized perception is what art is all about.