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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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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

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The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

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

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Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

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

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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

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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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TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

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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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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

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To a man with an empty stomach food is God

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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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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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I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

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A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

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