Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art.

The pleasure of eating something because it is expensive has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of good cuisine.

Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking.

A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

وكيف تنساني يا كل ناسي

God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Culture becomes visible when we travel between “ cultures ” and when we look back in time to other “ cultures ” than our own.

Yes, there's plenty of fish in the sea, but be gifted with a rare catch: that one which lives with "forever faithfulness." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

I am a fairly go-with-the-flow guy. Don't get me wrong, I have convictions.

Everybody was upset that Vladimir Putin was missing. He was in Switzerland with his girlfriend. She had a baby in Switzerland because in Russia childbirth is not covered by Putin-care.

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

I do have a lot of Australian friends.