The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotte...
Of course, with well-masticated food playing the role of social glue, it's absolutely essential that everyone clear their plate. Sod the starving kiddies in Africa - it's the overfed ones here we need to worry about.
One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.
When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.
Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.
I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue.
The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.
The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.
One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.
A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.
Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.
