“The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.”

~ George Miller

“…cooking, we know, has a way of cutting through things, and to things, which have nothing to do with the kitchen. This is why it matters.”

~ Nigella Lawson, How to Be a Domestic Goddess

"The most learned men have been questioned as to the nature of this tuber, and after two thousand years of argument and discussion their answer is the same as it was on the first day: we do not know. The truffles themselves have been interrogated, and have answered simply: eat us and praise the Lord."

~Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)