M is for monastic … and for what happens when men become monks—at table, I hasten to add!

Rain or shine, spring's in the bones. Undeniable evidence at Ye Olde Herb Shoppe, 46 Dey Street, New York. Here are spring tonics for sale, the old-fashioned kinds made of bark, seed, and berry to turn into teas to quicken the blood....

Bring on the ham, a ham super-elegant, pearly pink the meat, and richly perfect in the mouth, with the taste of the smoke in each juicy fiber.

C is for cautious … the kind of dinner at which there is an undercurrent of earnest timidity.

Sherman Billingsley, let it be said at the outset, is an astute and determined businessman as well as being very much of a perfectionist.

I know it is like heresy for me, or any man, to put any people above the French as artists in the fine art of food. Especially the English.

Breakfast is not only a far more important meal in the Far West than it is in the precincts of the Atlantic seaboard, but that it is also a far more enjoyable one.

Salad dressings flock to town from the inns of the countryside.