I always believed you could learn something from nearly everybody you meet, if you're open to it.
. . . 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.
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.
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.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.
Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
If you have something to do tomorrow, do it today.