The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. – A. J. Liebling
I was looking forward to some real Capsicums, fresh from the bush and oozing their pungent piperine. – James Street (1903–1954), “The Grains of Paradise” [a little altered &mdas
We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food were eating. – Gabrielle Reece
In 71 or 72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage. – Paul Prudhomme
