A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

We didn't sit around the dining table talking about Madam Walker, but the silverware that we used every day had her monogram on it and our china for special occasions had been Madam Walker's china... and the baby grand piano on which I learned to read music had been in A'Lelia Walker's apartment in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.

A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

Adam Richman
Adam Richman

I like being the people's champion when it comes to dining.

Alain Ducasse
Alain Ducasse

In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.

Alain Ducasse
Alain Ducasse

Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.

Alvin Leung
Alvin Leung

I like using iconic things. What fine dining restaurant can get you to eat a breakfast sandwich that's like baby food?

Amanda Pays
Amanda Pays

I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.

Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar

I thought I'd be the first to introduce herbal tea to Patna. White tea, ginger tea, rooibos, camomile. No one touched it. On subsequent visits, I'd find the packets decorating the shelves in my parents' dining room.

Amor Towles
Amor Towles

One restaurant I visit without fail, whenever I'm in the Bay Area, is the Boulevard at 1 Mission Street, a few strides from the waterfront. It has excellent food and wine very much in the modern California style, but I go there less for any one dish than for the pleasure of dining with the restaurant's chefs.