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The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

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I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

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

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SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

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TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

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The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

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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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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

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

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

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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

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Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

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We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

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Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

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The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

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The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

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

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