There should be two requirements for wearing a Greek fisherman’s cap: one, you should be Greek, and two, you should be a fisherman. - Roy Blount Jr.

Everything in Greece takes just twice as long as it would anywhere else. In this country they just do not use time at all. – Evelyn Waugh

His great aim was to escape from civilization, so, as soon as he had money, he went to southern California. – Anonymous

I never eat in a restaurant that’s over a hundred feet off the ground and won’t stand still. – Calvin Trillin

The farther off the ground you get, the worse the food is, with airplanes being the best example. – Russell Baker

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. – Gore Vidal (1925-2012)

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. – Mort Sahl

Some people like to eat octopus. Liberals mostly. – Russell Baker

Restaurants are places in which to escape from the world, where people can feel brighter, wealthier and happier than they really are. – Daniel Patterson

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently, those people deserve to be punished. – Marshall Rosenberg

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or madness. – Sam Peckinpah

A good meal makes a man feel more charitable toward the whole world than any sermon. – Arthur Pendenys

Nearly everyone wants at least one outstanding meal a day. – Duncan Hines

Why invent the concept of good taste? Whether a by-product of the
homology of the fields of consumption and production, or the natural
evolution of the refinement of the social self through manners, the concept of good taste functions primarily to distinguish those who have it from those who do not. There is nothing inherently better about one flavor over another until each of those flavors are generally accepted to represent the preferences of a particular social group or class. And then, as those preferences change, whether because of changes in the distribution of the various capital of the people who claim them or changes in the positions and position-takings within their respective fields, tastes change, too. Gastronomy became the field in which these tastes were negotiated, codified, written down, and quite literally served up to the public at large. – Mitchell Davis