“ Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. ”
I can write better than anyone who can write faster and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.
~ A. J. Liebling
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
