The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
A. J. Liebling: World War II Writings (LOA #181): The Road Back to Paris / Mollie and Other War Pieces / Uncollected War Journalism / Normandy Revisited (Library of America A. J. Liebling Edition)