Charles Dickens Quotes, Food Quotes, Cooking Quotes

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

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

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

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Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

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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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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

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All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

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

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And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

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A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

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

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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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