Jay Fox's Dining Guide

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” – Mark Twain

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” – Gloria Steinem

“Some people like to eat octopus. Liberals, mostly.” — Russel Baker

“No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.” — Channing Pollock

I STARTED WRITING A NEW COLUMN, GOT ABOUT 550 WORDS into it, and it crashed, sorta. I was doing a new piece on one of G and my favorite eateries, mark & isabella’s, when they were gone. As in closed forever. We were astonished, flabbergasted, and heartbroken.­

If, on this day of Thanksgiving - that day you have the slightly stuffed feeling - you have the desire to declare your New Year's resolution diet a bit early, perhaps the following poem will provide the words that you just cant' think of:

A FAT MAN’S PRAYER
by Victor Buono

THIS’N AND THAT’N

“The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.” — Confucius

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” — Voltaire

“If you are going to America, bring food.” — Fran Lebowitz

TIME SURE DOES FLY WHEN YOU’RE HAVING FUN, and I can’t think of anything more fun than the sixth annual Italian Food and Wine Festival, to be held at Belmar, at West Alameda and South Wadsworth, in Lakewood, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 19 and 20.

“Scientists tell us we are what we eat. Nuts must be more common in diets than we thought.” — Anonymous