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“Pizza tastes as good as being skinny feels.”

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“Leggo my Eggo!”

Author:Kellogg

“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once, for example, when I was just starting out in the food business, I was hired by the caper people to develop a lot of recipes using capers, and it was weeks of tossing capers into just about everything but milkshakes before I came to terms with the fact that nobody really likes capers no matter what you do with them. Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in in.”

Book:Heartburn

Source: Heartburn

“So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual's control--what happens to our jobs, to the prices at the gas station, to the vote in the legislature. But somehow food still feels a little different. We can still decide, every day, what we're going to put into our bodies, what sort of food chain we want to participate in. We can, in other words, reject the industrial omelet on offer and decide to eat another.”

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Book:The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel. Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought: food. The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.”

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Book:Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Source: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon my bed in the dark looking upward at the ceiling i get what many will consider an obnoxious thought: it’s still nice to be Bukowski.”

Funny Poetry Poem Ego Irony Ironic Obnoxious Bukowski

Book:You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“One of the very best things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”

Author:Luciano Pavarotti

“Like most humans, I am hungry...our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it...”

Book:The Gastronomical Me

Source: The Gastronomical Me

“Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman." [Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.]”

Food Cooking Breakfast Limitations Cuisine Scotch Sherlock Holmes

Book:The Naval Treaty - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

Source: The Naval Treaty - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“Music, When Soft Voices Die Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.”

Love Death Poetry Grief Mourning

Book:The Complete Poems

Source: The Complete Poems

“Is food a substitute for love? No, love is a substitute for food. And a pretty poor substitute at that.”

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Author:Rohan Candappa