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TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

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Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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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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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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To a man with an empty stomach food is God

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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

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Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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

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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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And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

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

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

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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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He receives comfort like cold porridge.

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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

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