“I have yet to add anything less than everything. I like everything and everything, and I find people who don’t impossible to fathom except as victims of the Puritan Ethic Failing to add everything, it seems to me, demonstrates not the presence of restraint but the absence of curiosity - the kind of healthy curiosity that impels me to try every single cheese on the cheese board no matter how many times the French waiter with the tight smile emits one of those impatient sighs he practices in the kitchen during slack hours.”
— Calvin Trillin, on condiments, in “American Fried: Adventures of a Happy Eater”
