Waverley Lewis Root

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

“A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.”

“One of the delights of life is eating with friends, second to that is talking about eating. And for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.”

“Cuisine is not an art. It is a craft.”

“The truffle is not a positive flavor, but it is a catalyst.”

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”

“The secret of Italian cooking is simplicity.”

“You cannot get an honest opinion of a restaurant meal from a food writer on a junket.”

“Italian cooking is the cooking of the family, the cooking of the home.”

“The French do not eat to live; they live to eat.”

“Butter is the soul of French cooking.”

“There is in the French kitchen a reverence for the raw material, a determination to make the most of it.”