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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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Hunger is the best sauce.

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

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The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

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Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

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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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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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

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Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

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

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

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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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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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