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It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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

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

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

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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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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

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

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

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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

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Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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

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

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

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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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