"The secret of food lies in memory – of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is." ― Jerry Saltz Topic(s): Food More From Jerry Saltz "I don’t know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I’ve gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars." "If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by." "You can’t prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell – although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I’d say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn’t really looked at either painter’s work. Taste is a blood sport." More In Food "Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction."― John Owen "My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry."― Jan Karon "The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone’s body without actually touching them?"― Padma Lakshmi