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We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
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William Osler Quotes

Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter, and in wine.
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Polish Proverb Quotes

Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn.
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Garrison Keillor Quotes

A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do.
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P.J. O'Rourke Quotes

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
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Joan Gussow Quotes

There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye.
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Author Unknown Quotes

Don't forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting microörganisms.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes

Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.
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Gael Greene Quotes

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
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Emily Post Quotes

This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal. We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.
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Jane Grigson Quotes

I'm not sure what makes pepperoni so good - if it's the pepper or the oni.
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Ulrik Stephens Quotes

You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.
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Earl Wilson Quotes

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.
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Elsie de Wolfe Quotes

The story of barbecue is the story of America: Settlers arrive on great unspoiled continent, discover wondrous riches, set them on fire and eat them.
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Vince Staten Quotes

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
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Meryl Streep Quotes

Would you kill your pet dog or cat to eat it? How about an animal you're not emotionally attached to? Is the thought of slaughtering a cow or chicken or pig with your own hands too much to handle? Instead, would hiring a hit-man to do the job give you enough distance from the emotional discomfort? What animal did you put a contract out on for your supper last night? Did you at least make sure that none went to waste and to take a moment to be grateful for its sacrifice?
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Anonymous Quotes

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.
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Mark Twain Quotes

It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.
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Robert Fuoss Quotes

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.
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Bert Greene Quotes

Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes

Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people.
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Elizabeth Berry Quotes

If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn't organic produce just be called "produce" and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?
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Ymber Delecto Quotes

Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree.
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Elizabeth Russell Quotes

Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
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Author Unknown Quotes

We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow.
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Lee Iacocca Quotes

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.
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St Frances de Sales Quotes

Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy.
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Author Unknown Quotes

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.
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George W. Bush Quotes

Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are.
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes

Chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
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Clementine Paddleford Quotes

After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile.
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English Saying Quotes

He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters.
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James I Quotes

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.
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Fred Allen Quotes

Life goes faster on protein.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
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Aldous Huxley Quotes

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
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Andy Rooney Quotes

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime.
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Edward Abbey Quotes

It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption.
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Edward Bunyard Quotes

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
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Doug Larson Quotes

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
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Epicurus Quotes

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
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Harriet van Horne Quotes

Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.
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José Simons Quotes

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
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Woody Allen Quotes

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
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James Beard Quotes

Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.
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Fran Lebowitz Quotes

He who eats alone chokes alone.
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Proverb Quotes

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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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Oil and potatoes both grow underground so french fries may have eventually produced themselves, had they not been invented.
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J. Esther Quotes

Breadbaking is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.
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M.F.K. Fisher Quotes

The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes

How can you eat anything with eyes?
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Will Kellogg Quotes

I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.
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Kate Bush Quotes

Worries go down better with soup.
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Jewish Proverb Quotes

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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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
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Channing Pollock Quotes

Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat.
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Author Unknown Quotes

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
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Buddy Hackett Quotes

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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Clifton Fadiman Quotes

All sorrows are less with bread.
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Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
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John Gunther Quotes

You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you're apt to be a hermit.
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Franklin P. Jones Quotes

You make me sick! You are offered meat and you choose a banana-split-with-nuts.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.
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Craig Claiborne Quotes

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
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Jim Davis Quotes

As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.
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Sydney Harris Quotes

Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.
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Author Unknown Quotes

Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat.
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Jim Davis Quotes

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

When I'm at a Chinese restaurant having a hard time with chopsticks, I always hope that there's a Chinese kid at an American restaurant somewhere who's struggling mightily with a fork.
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Rick Budinich Quotes

A three-year-old gave this reaction to her Christmas dinner: "I don't like the turkey, but I like the bread he ate."
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Author Unknown Quotes

Sugar is a type of bodily fuel, yes, but your body runs about as well on it as a car would.
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V.L. Allineare Quotes

Food is so primal, so essential a part of our lives, often the mere sharing of recipes with strangers turns them into good friends. That's why I love this community.
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Jasmine Heiler Quotes

Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach.
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A. Kerr Quotes

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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Charles Kuralt Quotes

If soup isn't hot enough to make a grown man wince, it's undrinkable.
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Grey Livingston Quotes

Chili represents your three stages of matter: solid, liquid, and eventually gas.
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Roseanne Quotes

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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Calvin Trillin Quotes

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
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Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright Quotes

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
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Christopher Dodd Quotes