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“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?'”

Quote by Mark Twain

Book:A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

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A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

A Tramp Abroad is a travelogue written by Mark Twain, detailing his experiences and observations during a trip to Europe. The book offers a humorous and insightful look into the cultures and landscapes of the time. more

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a renowned American author and humorist in the 19th century. His works are characterized by humor, satire, and profound social insight, with notable novels such as 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. more

“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

“Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.”

Two Seems Culture Food Cooking Warm Smell Dust Characteristics Gas Culinary Athens Garlic Tweed

Book:Labels: A Mediterranean Journal

Source: Labels: A Mediterranean Journal

“Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill.”