"Do you think in your lifetime you’ve drunk more wine than water?"/"That’s a good question. Certainly, the last twenty years, yes."

"I don’t drink that much water, you know? It’s an interesting thing, because now there is an obsession with water. I mean, we go 20 feet, we go walking, and we have to have water. When I was a kid, I left in the morning to go to the woods with my brother, and we never had water. Granted, we stopped in a village, there was a fountain, you drank the water. But even now, I go play boulé or I go mushrooming for two hours, someone says, 'Do you want some water?' No! I can go two hours without a bottle of water."

So begins the GQ interview with Jacque Pépin, which I got to via Metafilter.