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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

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The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

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I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

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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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Hunger is the best sauce.

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TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

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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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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

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Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.

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CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

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Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

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Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

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