Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?
Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B. C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.
. . . it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.
Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner
I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was like, "I could come up with better stories than this. " And I've wanted to write films ever since.
I try not to get impressed. I just try to look at what I see.
Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point of view, but it talks about the birth of this religion, and I thought it was pretty admiring of the person at the center of it, the prophet of Islam.
War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.