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God made only water, but man made wine.

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The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

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PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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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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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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

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There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

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SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

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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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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

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

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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

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I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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

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