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

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The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

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

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

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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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This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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

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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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

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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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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

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

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We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

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OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

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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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