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It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

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We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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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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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

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The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

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