Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Quotes

As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a reprehensible frivolity, and cakes in particular ended up annihilating the flavour of quiet sadness that must be allowed to linger at the end of a great culinary performance.

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán