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“Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point vegetables, sprinkle a handful of chopped parsley over all, and then, like a proficient striptease artist, remove the apron, allowing it to fall to the floor with a shake of her hips.”

Artist Fall Food Empty Cooking Hips Meat Shakes Remove Culinary Allowing Vegetables Handful Toss Stoves Sprinkles Aprons Parsley

Author:Bert Greene

“Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.”

Food Empty Cooking Rewards Customers Culinary Plates

Author:Jacques Torres

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.”

Ifs Trying Culture Food Produce Empty International Excellent Substitutes Cigar Stumps Matchboxes

Author:Norman Douglas

“A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?”

Ifs Doe Might Used Courses Space Existence Food Empty Holes Paradox Spheres Quantity Nothingness Empty Space Minus Existence Of God Doughnut

Book:The Blind Assassin: A Novel

Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel

“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?”

People Thinking World Looks Has Beens Said Two Truth Half Food Type Empty Bigger Glasses Excuse Beer Discworld Excuse Me Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full Pinching

Author:Terry Pratchett

“To a man with an empty stomach food is God”

Men Poor Poverty Food Empty Stomach Poor Man Ending Poverty Empty Stomach

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!”

Thinking Men Philosophy Science Technology Food Eating Empty Cooking Philosopher Ignorant Culinary Conceited

Book:The book and the brotherhood

Source: The book and the brotherhood

“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”

Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms

“Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.”

Opinion Food Empty Wine Bottles

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)