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There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

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

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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

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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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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

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The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

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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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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

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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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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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I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

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

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

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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

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