Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Strong Quotes, Food Quotes

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

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

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Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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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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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

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

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

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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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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

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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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The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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

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A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

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

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