Mark Twain

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream… I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people’s tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god.

Chocolate makes everyone smile – even bankers.

I once made a (it was supposed to be a 30-minute) bean salad that took me like 6 hours

American food is too dry! I need myself some proper Chinese soup like right now.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

Trump Steaks, where are the steaks? Do we have steaks? We have Trump Steaks.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.

I am vegetarian. I became one at 20 when I was working in a pig farm. I got attached to the pigs and I couldn’t stand the thought that they would have to go off to be slaughtered.

No eggs, no omelette. And it depends on the quality of the eggs. In the supermarket, you have eggs class one, class two, class three. Some are more expensive than others and some give you better omelettes. So when the class one eggs are in Waitrose and you cannot go there, you have a problem.

I don’t go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.