Fine words do not produce food.

This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook -- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

Hospitality should be accidental, spontaneous, and impulsive, not pre-arranged and calculated.

He who in your presence speaks kindly, but in your absence seeks to injure you, must be utterly rejected, like a bowl of poison covered with milk.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Nature gave us two cheeks instead of one to make it easier to eat hot food.