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“In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.”

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M. F. K. Fisher

M. F. K. Fisher, an American renowned food writer, was born on July 3, 1908, and passed away on June 22, 1992. Her works are known for their deep exploration of the relationship between food and human emotions, culture, and society. more

“All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.”

Ifs Firsts Self Funny Law Culture Morning Food Cooking Rate Expected Culinary Breakfast Knives Laws Of Nature Defence Famine Forks Morrow Few Words Self Defence

Book:Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Edition

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Edition

“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.”

Thinking Men Dies Culture Food Waste Europe Cooking Culinary Accustomed Cookery American Food

Book:A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

“What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.”

World Needs Country Culture Process Materials Eating Tables Improvement Preparing Ruined Raw Materials

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'”

Made Might Culture Enjoy Born Strange Taste Bills Tired Shakes Missionary Sigh Foreigners Glorify

Book:A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

“I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.”

Knows Art States America Culture Black United United States Food Cooking Russia Bread Hotel Culinary Vodka Food Love

Author:Isadora Duncan

“The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.”

Art Sometimes Play Culture Passion Easy Moral Masters Ought Perfection Ears Trade Dues Improvement Advertising Propose Public Good Subordination

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius

“We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.”

Persons Culture Left Behinds Food Taste Longing Simplicity Enjoyed Farms Appetite Left Behind Hometown Good Taste Bundles

Author:Clementine Paddleford

“Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.”

Culture Waiting Food Cooking Culinary Appetite Digestion

Book:The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant

Source: The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant

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