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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

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In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

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We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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

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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

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SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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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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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

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For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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