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

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

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

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

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

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

Let things taste of what they are.

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

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

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