I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it. - Anthony Bourdain

You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

I have long believed that it is only right and appropriate that before one sleeps with someone, one should be able — if called upon to do so — to make them a proper omelet in the morning. Surely that kind of civility and selflessness would be both good manners and good for the world. Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck. Perhaps there should be an unspoken agreement that in the event of loss of virginity, the more experienced of the partners should, afterward, make the other an omelet — passing along the skill at an important and presumably memorable moment.