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

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

Wine is bottled poetry.

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

Wine is a constant proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

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.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.

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