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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

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For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

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There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

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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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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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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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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

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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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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

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

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A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

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Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

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A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

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Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

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

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