I'd treat myself to a reading marathon all weekend. All…

The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a…

— Harold McGee

“I've been thinking a lot about the word "everything." Whenever something horrible happens, you hear people say they "lost everything." They lost their house…

— Jennifer Brown

“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east…

— Alice Munro

'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the…

— Paul Feig

Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want…

— Macaulay Culkin

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around…

— Jay-Z

“Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages.”

— Florence Williams

There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.

— Amal El-Mohtar

I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.

— Kirstie Alley

“America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer…

— Marisha Pessl

We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

— Oswald Mosley

“The first curry recipes published in an American cookbook appeared nearly eighty years later in Mary Randolph’s The Virginia Housewife, the very same cookbook…

— Sarah Lohman

“love ice cream, I love pancakes, I love the color blue — bullshit. Because when I said love — I meant I bled for…

— Rachel Van Dyken

The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one…

— Terry Pratchett