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“The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.”

Given Food Cold Cooking Winter Excellent Culinary Preservation Infant Great Success Whisky Smallpox Highlander Winter Cold

Author:Tobias Smollett

“The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?”

Looks Food Wall Red Cooking Track Meat Culinary Vegetarian Lions Slim Nutritionist Red Meat Hippopotamus

Author:Erma Bombeck

“The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary's! Ah!”

Made Food Sweet All Things Cooking Preserves Ems Culinary Mary Spares Aunt Jam Sour Cherries Peaches Jelly Pears Pickles Cinnamon Marmalade Quince

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley

“The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.”

Kind Wife Doors Food Ready Return Cooking My Wife Likes Cooks Generous Culinary Swim Cake Afternoon Plates Session Refrigerators Crabs Sunbathing

Author:Euell Gibbons

“The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.”

Lasts Food Sweet Taste Cooking Sunset Culinary Sweetest Beautiful Sunset Sun Setting

Author:William Shakespeare

“The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.”

Should Persons Food Healthy Cooking Convinced Culinary Nutrition Delicious Healthy Person

Book:Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt

Source: Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt

“The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.”

Real Sea Food Cooking South Native Culinary

Author:Victor Hugo

“The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.”

Food Cooking Culinary Sacraments

Book:I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent

Source: I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent

“The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition.”

Years Food Seasons Cooking Boring Culinary Repetition Right Time Reliance

Author:Roy Andries De Groot

“The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.”

Ifs Dark Food Cooking Culinary Soup Umbrella Drained

Book:With Malice Toward Some

Source: With Malice Toward Some

“The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.”

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

“The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate whether fried, baked, broiled or even eaten raw will form the foundation of a great garden industry.”

Eye Form Joy Rich Food Industry Garden Foundation Cooking Delight Golden Culinary Nutrition Tomatoes Palate Great Garden

Author:Robert Johnson

“The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.”

Food Color Offers Cooking Culinary Fiery Tomatoes Completeness

Book:Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda

Source: Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda

“The white Aylesbury duck is, and deservedly, a universal favourite. Its snowy plumage and comfortable comportment make it a credit to the poultry-yard, while its broad and deep breast, and its ample back, convey the assurance that your satisfaction will not cease at its death.”

White Food Comfortable Universal Cooking Satisfaction Credit Cease Breasts Culinary Broads Ducks Favourite Yards Assurance Snowy Poultry

Book:Mrs Beeton's Household Management

Source: Mrs Beeton's Household Management

“The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.”

Today Worst Food Drug Cooking Culinary Pot Sugar Refined Smack

Author:George Hamilton

“There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New York steak.”

Wells Born New York Food Cooking Abundance Culinary Freak Crave Steak

Author:Gael Greene

“There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.”

Way White Food Sight Cooking Reactions Culinary Freak Hammers Tense Hood Parking Parking Lot Smashing Coconuts Cadillacs

Book:Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

Source: Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

“There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.”

People Party Food Accounts Cooking Culinary Sane Immense Cocktails Vogue Cocktail Parties

Author:E. W. Howe

“There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'”

Giving Littles Light Food Give Me Tables Cooking Wine Coffee Cups Culinary Breakfast Bottles Cake Plates Grapes Coffee Cup Peaches Sponges Frugal Claret Nectarines

Book:Novels

Source: Novels

“They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.”

Watches Food Drink Cooking Cups Meat Culinary Arsenic Aghast

Book:A Shropshire Lad

Source: A Shropshire Lad

“This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated.”

Food Cooking Expensive Culinary

Author:Marian Burros

“This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.”

Thinking Way Want Real Lying Turns Sun Food Huge Waste Tiny Real Life Culinary Metals Pigs Cages Mud Pits Babe Hay Grate

Author:Morley Safer

“Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.”

Father Food Cooking Breasts Culinary Chill Coldness Cucumbers

Book:The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels

Source: The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels

“To me, peanut butter is the breakfast of champions!”

Food Cooking Champion Culinary Breakfast Peanuts Peanut Butter Breakfast Of Champions

Author:Greg Louganis

“TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.”

Food Cooking Culinary Pigs

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.”

Food Cooking Indian Culinary Vegetarian Hunters

Author:Andy Rooney

“Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!”

Car Food Cooking Culinary

Author:Judy Garland

“We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.”

Wells Effects Food Color Teeth Chinese Culinary Flavor Fragrance Texture Crisps

Book:My country and my people

Source: My country and my people

“We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.”

Wells Food Healthy Normal Cooking Wine Delight Well Being Culinary Giver Vineyards Food And Wine Drinking Wine Great Wine Fine Wine Wine Toast French Wine Moveable Feast

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?”

Eye Past Rich Food Cooking Lips Culinary Pie Thanksgiving Pumpkin Thanksgiving Day Pumpkin Pie

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.”

Life Is Food Cooking Apples Culinary Ripe Wondrous Clusters Melons Ripe Fruit

Author:Andrew Marvell

“What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.”

Food Drink Percent Cooking Culinary

Author:Gerard Depardieu

“When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain.”

Ifs World Believe Heart Ends Turns Lost Hours Known Streets Food Crosses Mark Cooking Evening Vain Culinary Occupation Pauses Pulse Cocktails Strengthening Coma

Author:Bernard DeVoto

“When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Hands Moving Know How Food Cooking Cooks Repeats Culinary Craftsman Good Cook

Author:Jacques Pepin

“Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.”

Wells Might Food Cooking Culinary Hares Alice Adventures In Wonderland Alice In Wonderland Alice Alice In Wonderland Tea Alice In Wonderland Mad

Author:Lewis Carroll

“Wine enlivens the human soul.”

Humans Soul Food Cooking Wine Culinary Human Soul

Author:Euripides

“Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.”

Helping Use Values Views Mankind Creation Food Scientist Cooking Wine Determine Point Of View Convinced Culinary Splendid Misuse Service To Mankind

Author:Pope Pius XII

“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

“Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.”

Food Cooking Cooks Culinary Woe Sauce

Author:Geoffrey Chaucer

“You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.”

Feels Sometimes Pieces Food Cooking Bread Culinary Wet Damp Bread And Butter Cucumbers Handkerchiefs

Author:Compton Mackenzie

“It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”

“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.”

“People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.”

People Food Cooking Culinary Obsessing

Author:Dougie Poynter

“Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.”

Food Members Murder Cooking Profession Cooks Culinary Commoners

Author:W. H. Auden

“The world is made of sugar and dirt.”

World Made Food Cooking Culinary Sugar Dirt

Author:Alfred Doblin

“Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.”

Humor Funny Food Adults Cooking Culinary Cheese Cheesy Macaroni Macaroni And Cheese Grilled Cheese Blue Cheese

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.”

Food Cooking Dinner Agents Culinary

Author:Marie-Antoine Careme

“A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.”

Humans Three Human Beings Four Food Amount Benefits Cooking Wine Glasses Illness Excellent Culinary Remedy Preservation Small Amounts

Book:Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma

Source: Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma

“EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.'”

Said Enjoy Hours Rooms Food Eating Function Cooking Dinner Drawing Culinary Interrupted Anecdotes Eating Dinner

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.”

Made Would Be Economy Food Materials Cooking Culinary Dishes Poorest Discarded Extravagance Cookery Tramps Tasty Continental Good Cook Whitechapel

Book:In Darkest England and the Way Out

Source: In Darkest England and the Way Out