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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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

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A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

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EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.'

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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

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A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

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Appetite, a universal wolf.

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PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

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

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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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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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Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

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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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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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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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