If I thought censoring the mail was necessary, I would suggest it, but I don’t think it is.

Lindsey Graham, a supposedly freely elected leader of this country sworn to protect and defend the Constitution of these United States, Senator from South Carolina. Breathtaking. This was said. In public, in America, in 2013. And Graham is generally considered a cool-headed moderate. The last vestiges of the old republic have been swept away.

The molecular cuisine has some good things about it, but I–I count my cooking by the looks of satisfaction on the faces of the people who have eaten my food. I don’t want them to be impressed; I want them to be pleased.

André Soltner, former chef of Lutèce, speaks the truth.