Robert tristram coffin

My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!

Never go back to your past, it can never be a future

All of life is the exercise of risk.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.