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He receives comfort like cold porridge.

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HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

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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 poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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

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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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Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

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His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

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

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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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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

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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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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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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

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HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

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

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PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

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