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“Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust.”

Thinking Causes Food Humour Cooking Lust Symbols Culinary Interpretation Provoking Forbidden Beans Windy

Author:Richard Taverner

“But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.”

Giving Mean Food England Cooking Culinary Beans

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.”

World Missing Food Cooking Friendly Culinary Beans Lentils Congeniality

Author:Laurie Colwin

“Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.”

People Sides Food Cooking Contact Dull Beans Peas

Author:Irma S. Rombauer

“If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.”

Ifs Food Red Cooking Dinner Culinary Pot Host Bubbles Decline Pale Beans Sumptuous

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)

“You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.”

Way Character Human Nature Food Eating Fellows Cooking Culinary Patriotic Epic Candy Dessert Beans Funny Food Personality Flaws Gourmet Food Jelly Bean

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.”

Fear Peace Healing Food Cooking Culinary Cake Anti War Beans Ale

Book:Aesop's fables

Source: Aesop's fables

“Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.”

Has Beens Lasts Hours Food Ideals Cooking Everyday Block Consumers Pounds Culinary Twelve Peasants Beans Splitting Firewood Ambrosia

Book:Julia Child & more company

Source: Julia Child & more company

“Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.”

People Ifs Waiting Difficult Cases Food Advantage Cooking Prepared Culinary Occupation Satisfying Vegetables Disposition Delicious Beans Ifs And Punctual Posse

Author:Andre Simon

“Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.”

Source: Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel

“I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times the vitamins of a bushel of beans.”

Running Four Feet Food Cooking Apples Culinary Truck Dessert Beans Vitamins Cabbage Lettuce

Author:S. J. Perelman

“It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.”

Made Whole Land Food Ready Mere Meals Coincidence Soup Beans Pork

Book:In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality