Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.

— Judith Clancy

Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm. It completely revolutionized it. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure and the science of maths was put back by years.

— Douglas Adams

With his arm back around Gavin's waist, Brad suddenly seemed very determined to get to their destination. Gavin was curious about it until he saw the restaurant. With rainbow flags hanging on either side of the sign mounted on the roof, it sort of looked like home base in a game of gay tag.

— Kele Moon

Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictatorship, it is not easily passed down intact.

— Calvin Trillin

Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The salt is to the food, what soul is to the body.

— Amit Kalantri

She was willing a little bit of sweated labour, incapable of betraying the slogan of her slavers, that since the customer or sucker was paying for his gutrot ten times what it cost to produce and five times what it cost to fling in his face, it was only reasonable to defer to his complaints up to but not exceeding fifty per cent of his exploitation.

— Samuel Beckett

Hunger gives flavour to the food.

— Amit Kalantri

All worries are less with wine.

— Amit Kalantri

A good food is mouthwatering when you see it and finger licking when you eat it.

— Amit Kalantri