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“If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.”

Ifs Thinking Easy Food Cooking Dinner Culinary Pudding

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.”

Mind Mother Easy Food Comfort Illusion Soup Comfort Food

Book:Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes

Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes

“A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!”

Problem Easy Pieces Food Ought Cooking Rings Bread Culinary Strings Cake Sandwiches Onions One Piece Peppers Biting Hippo Mayonnaise Hippopotamus Onion Rings

Author:Shel Silverstein

“What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would fix it. He would cook it down, condense it-this broth with all sorts of feet in it, then it would gell into sheer bliss. It kept me alive once for three weeks when I was ill as a child. And I've always craved it since.”

Children Mother Three Strong Easy Alive Week Feet Food Cold Cooking Ill Chinese Cooks Bliss Culinary Chickens Thick Sheer Jelly

Author:James Beard

“If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.”

Ifs Easy Food Cooking Hunger Culinary Belly

Author:Diogenes

“Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.”

Believe Easy Effort Food Culinary Cake Believe In Me Baking Scams Prowess

Book:How To Be A Domestic Goddess

Source: How To Be A Domestic Goddess

“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.”

Easy Food Perspective Catholic Stomach Fasting Dieting Catholic Saint

Book:The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)

“Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.”

Would Be Happiness Easy Difficult Food Difficulty Cooking Culinary Temperance Abstinence

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.”

Needs Years Problem House Grows Easy Sin Food Source Originals Cooking Smell Be Good Improvement Ruins Meals Culinary Pot Vegetables Wet Nasty Foul Original Sin Cabbage Greenery

Book:Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book

Source: Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book

“It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.”

Easy Forget Food Shelves Supermarkets Forget The Past

Author:Christopher Dodd