Consuming Passions: A Feast of Quotations Celebrating Food & the Art of Dining

A compendium of wit and witticisms on the topic of food and feasting, from writers and celebrities throughout the ages Such quotes “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.” —Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin “Civilized adults do not take apple juice with dinner.” —Fran Lebowitz “Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.” —Oscar Wilde “Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” —Mark Twain “The trouble with the world is that everybody in it is three drinks behind.” —Humphrey Bogart “You can never be too rich or too thin.” —The Duchess of Windsor “I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.” —Mae West “Life is too short to stuff mushrooms.” —Shirley Conrant