I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o’clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve – and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.

The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby – how could anything so beautiful be mine?

But I don’t want nutrition. I want food!

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.