William Wordsworth Quotes, Food Quotes, Cooking Quotes

A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

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In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

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The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

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To a man with an empty stomach food is God

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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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An army marches on its stomach.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

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