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A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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Too many cooks spoil the broth

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

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A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

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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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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

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

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

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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To a man with an empty stomach food is God

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

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

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

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