Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Art Quotes, Food Quotes

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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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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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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PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

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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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Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

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He receives comfort like cold porridge.

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

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

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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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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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New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

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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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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

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

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Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

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