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“...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.”

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This book delves into the intricate world of culinary techniques, exploring the art of preparing and enjoying food. It examines the cultural and historical aspects of eating, offering insights into the diverse ways in which food is consumed across different societies and times. more

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M.F.K. Fisher

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“If only the know-how could be equalled by the will-to-serve, by compassion for human suffering cause by hunger and deficiency diseases, there is no reason why fully balanced diets consisting largely of plant-foods should not be made available for hundreds of millions of undernourished people in the West as well as in the Third World.”

Food Hunger Trees Agroforestry

Book:Forest Gardening with Robert Hart

Source: Forest Gardening with Robert Hart

“Eaters of Wonder Bread Must be underbred. So little to eat. Where's the wheat?”

Food Eating Bread Wheat Wonder Bread Wonderbread

Book:Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

Source: Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

“Decadent cooks go one step further and make sculptures of the food itself. If life is to be spent in pursuit of the extravagant, the extreme, the grotesque, the bizarre, then one's diet should reflect the fact. Life, meals, everything must be as artificial as possible - in fact works of art. So why not begin by eating a few statues?”

Food Cooking Decadence Decadent

Book:The Decadent Cookbook

Source: The Decadent Cookbook

“I’ve supped on potatoes and groats and am waiting to be sick. How about you? I supped like the Lord in Heaven.’ and what does the Lord in Heaven have for supper?’ Nothing.”

Food Hunger

Book:Prague Tales

Source: Prague Tales

“Besides its content and methods, the cuisine devised by squaws and hillbilly women, as well as slave women, had another thing in common, which was the belief that you made do with whatever you could lay hands on--pigs' entrails, turnip tops, cowpeas, terrapins, catfish--anything that didn't bite you first.”

Food

Book:Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South

Source: Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South