The Roman pomp and raiment have fallen away, and I swear…

“I now have some intimacy with death, and like the hops in a beer, it has both embittered and fortified me.”

— Eli Brown

“As it ferments, kraut whispers alchemical secrets. In two days, it will smell as agreeable as an old pillow still warm from night’s use.…

— Eli Brown

“The proper way is lost to me; my compass spins. I therefore give my entire attention to those works that seem to me most…

— Eli Brown

“Some foods are so comforting, so nourishing of body and soul, that to eat them is to be home again after a long journey.…

— Eli Brown

“Such is the indomitable spirit of saffron that even after years stale on my chest, it brought the rice to life with flavor and…

— Eli Brown

“We are surrounded by monsters," she said. "We can cower before them or we can pick one and sink our teeth in with the…

— Eli Brown

“Never have I seen such a motley assemblage of characters. Except that we are at sea, I would believe that I had been abducted…

— Eli Brown

“Without another word, we began to eat. I was hungry, but no appetite would excuse the way we set upon those dishes. We shoveled…

— Eli Brown

“He who writes our every story needs no annotation from me.”

— Eli Brown

“Men who long for the past are already dead. Look to the future, Owen.”

— Eli Brown

“It is no great secret that cooking is, in essence, seduction.”

— Eli Brown

“I write here all I can, yet cannot express the fatigue I collapse under each night, worn to the bone with worry. I feel…

— Eli Brown

“I made an attempt to reach him in his grief. I said, "I've had this pain. To tell you it will go away would…

— Eli Brown

“A knight can fight. As you well know, I fight about as well as a pillow." "That's an insult to pillows. At least they…

— Eli Brown

“He smoked a pipe, and Laroche, who indulged in neither tobacco nor spirits, simply sat upright in his chair and looked toward the quince…

— Eli Brown