A City With One Newspaper... Is Like

Any City May Have One Period Of Magnificence, Like Boston Or New Orleans Or San Francisco, But It Takes A Real One To Keep Renewing Itself Until The Past Is Perennially Forgotten.

The World Isn't Going Backward, If You Can Just Stay Young Enough To Remember What It Was Really Like When You Were Really Young.

The Primary Requisite For Writing Well About Food Is A Good Appetite. Without This, It Is Impossible To Accumulate, Within The Allotted Span, Enough Experience Of Eating To Have Anything Worth Setting Down.

Southern Political Personalities, Like Sweet Corn, Travel Badly. They Lose Flavor With Every Hundred Yards Away From The Patch. By The Time They Reach New York, They Are Like Golden Bantam That Has Been Trucked Up From Texas - Stale And Unprofitable. The Consumer Forgets That The Corn Tastes Different Where It Grows.

Forget That New Orleans Is Actually A Little Like The Combat Zone With French Cooking, It Still Happens To Be Part Of The Great State Of Louisiana Where People Play The Political Game The Same Way It's Played In Lebanon. The Place Is One Layer After Another Of Tribes, Factions And At Least A Million Laughs.