A Really Big Lunch Quotes

“There have been mutterings that the whole food thing has gone too far in America, but I think not. Good food is a benign weapon against the sodden way we live.”
― Jim Harrison, A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life

“In Paris, however, when I said that as a gourmand, I couldn’t be a politician because they regularly shit out of their mouths and that would taint my dining experiences, the newspaper quoted me in full.”
― Jim Harrison, A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life

“There is no more grotesque misunderstanding of life than to murder people in the name of ideas.”
― Jim Harrison, A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life

“This sentence cribbed from the back of a cereal box (organic flax and raisin bran) is not the less poignant for its source.”
― Jim Harrison, A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life