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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

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A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

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HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

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

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

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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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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

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TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

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

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I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

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The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

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

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EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.'

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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

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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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