Claudia Roden quotes:

Everything tastes better outdoors.

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.

True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest.

Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people's minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and represents.

The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome