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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 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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A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

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

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It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

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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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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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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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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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

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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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

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Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

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He receives comfort like cold porridge.

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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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