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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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

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Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

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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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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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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

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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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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

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

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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

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Too many cooks spoil the broth

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