Quote of the week:
"The only defense against interesting food is to assert your independence and eat before you leave the house. This is one of the first things anyone who chronicles parties learns: If you don't eat when you go out, except for maybe just a little taste on occasion, they don't own you when you get home. It's a physiological solution as much as it is anything else."
William Norwich, NYT Style & Entertaining section, Sunday, March 28, 2004, replying to the question, What is my defense against interesting food? Salmon poached in licorice? Bacon-and-egg ice cream dispensed from liquid nitrogen canisters?