Quotes from Waverley Root

The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.