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“How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?”

Kind Two Different Nations Food Six Hundred Forty Different Kinds Cheese

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, that's when you start to see these different permutations.”

Wells Different Matter Culture Food Fuel Rome Representation

Author:Mario Batali

“Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.”

Different Sky Food Green Cooking Culinary Cheese Pastures

Author:Italo Calvino

“There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy.”

Different Rich Imagine Food Strange Monsters Sheep Twelve Bowls Dishes Floating Private Life Lambs Sauce Gravy

Book:The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

Source: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

“Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.”

Different Poetry Food Poet Drink Prose Food And Drink Prose And Poetry

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.”

Different Food Sitting British Indian Meals Sitting Down

Author:Roland Joffe

“Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.”

“Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle.”

Different Sometimes Challenges Food Green Genuine Soup Mock Turtles Stew Beverages Enticing

Author:Louis Pullig De Gouy

“An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.”

May Different Next Food Adventure Cooking Eggs Culinary The Next One

Author:Oscar Wilde