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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

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MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

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

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

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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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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

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We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

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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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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

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

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

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