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.

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

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

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

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.

Let things taste of what they are.