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“A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.”

World Mind Long Body Food Cooking Misery Details Culinary Distress Mind And Body Inventor Recreation Harassment Overlooked Weariness Banquets

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

“Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.”

Source: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

“Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body.”

Body Morning Effects Food Cold Taste Cooking Culinary Showers Bud Taste Buds Marmalade

Author:Jeanine Larmoth

“Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.”

Ifs Body Pleasure Food Cooking Wine Culinary Lacking Moderation Strengthening Detrimental

Author:Pliny the Elder

“Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best medicine when it has the best moderation to direct it. Wine was given to restore the body's weakness, not to overturn the soul's strength.”

Soul Body Might Given Food Weakness Direct Cooking Wine Medicine Culinary Sober Moderation

Book:A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church

Source: A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church