Source: La bonne table
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“Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.”
Source: Jane Grigson's Fruit Book
“A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.”
“The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.”
Source: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The structure of everyday life
“I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.”
Source: The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset (Unabridged): Collection of six historical novels dealing with politics and romance - Classics of English literature from the author of The Eustace Diamonds, He Knew He Was Right and The Prime Minister
Source: A Child's Garden of Verses
Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby
“No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.”
Source: The Portreeve
“An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.”
“There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.”
“Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.”
Source: Much Ado About me
“It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.”
Source: Food
“Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.”
Source: Crazy Salad Plus Nine
“The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.”
Source: Food
“When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.”
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Source: Money
“Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”
“Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.”
Source: La bonne table
“Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt.”
Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography
“A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.”