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“Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.”

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Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“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.”

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Author:Robert Johnson

“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.”

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Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.”

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Book:The Documents in the Case

Source: The Documents in the Case

“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.”

“The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.”

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Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.”

Food Eating Delight Meat Appetite

Author:John Suckling

“This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.”

Source: Jane Grigson's Fruit Book

“Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.”

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Author:Julia Child

“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight”

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Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.”

Hands Able Food Source Cooking Fishes Delight Cooks Culinary Perpetual

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.”

Food Shapes Cooking Delight Culinary Figs

Book:Jane Grigson's Fruit Book

Source: Jane Grigson's Fruit Book

“Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.”

Eye Food Delight Artistic Nudity

Book:Food

Source: Food

“An optimism. First you make the sherbet and then the baklava.”

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Book:Yet Another New Land

Source: Yet Another New Land