When Shall We Live If Not Now?

Talleyrand Said That Two Things Are Essential In Life: To Give Good Dinners And To Keep On Fair Terms With Women. As The Years Pass And Fires Cool, It Can Become Unimportant To Stay Always On Fair Terms Either With Women Or One's Fellows, But A Wide And Sensitive Appreciation Of Fine Flavours Can Still Abide With Us, To Warm Our Hearts.

When We Exist Without Thought Or Thanksgiving We Are Not Men, But Beasts.

I Like Old People When They Have Aged Well.

The Smell Of Good Bread Baking, Like The Sound Of Lightly Flowing Water, Is Indescribable In Its Evocation Of Innocence And Delight... [breadmaking Is] One Of Those Almost Hypnotic Businesses, Like A Dance From Some Ancient Ceremony. It Leaves You Filled With One Of The World's Sweetest Smells... There Is No Chiropractic Treatment, No Yoga Exercise, No Hour Of Meditation In A Music-throbbing Chapel. That Will Leave You Emptier Of Bad Thoughts Than This Homely Ceremony Of Making Bread.

People Ask Me: "why Do You Write About Food, And Eating, And Drinking? Why Don't You Write About The Struggle For Power And Security, And About Love, The Way The Others Do?" . . . The Easiest Answer Is To Say That, Like Most Other Humans, I Am Hungry.