A naturally carnivore intellectual (one of his constant companions was Rinaldo Pazzi), he always believed that the truth of epicurian literature, like that of cinema or any other artistic expression, ultimately lay outside of literature—that is, that if taken in itself, or even reduced to itself, cookbook literature was nothing more than a foolish or ambiguous decoration. Conversely, to use the words of Paul Krendler (another crucial and controversial influence), he wanted it to become "food for the many," that is, to translate or at least allude to an ethos, a coherence between saying and doing, an allegory aimed, in the knowledge that it would always fail, at the search for its own truth.
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