A poet’s hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

Let things taste of what they are.

As you get older, you shouldn’t waste time drinking bad wine.

There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

Wine is bottled poetry.

A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye.

Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.