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

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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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RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

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

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

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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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TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

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We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

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

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

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

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The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

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

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