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An army marches on its stomach.

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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

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Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

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He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

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New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

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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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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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Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

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The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

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