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“The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.”

Should Mean Ends Self Use Morning Food Expression Personality Cooking Edges Cooks Meals Soup Pondering Self Expression Chins

Author:Rebecca West

“In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'”

Should Writing Ends Cases Food Cooking Culinary Drs Tombstone Cannibal

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“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

“Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hôtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the éclairs stuffed with cream.”

Littles Long Ends Three Strong Food College Tables Cooking China Bread Cups Tea Paris Silver Culinary Portions Cream Sandwiches Jam Fragility Clutch Coarse Teapots Baguettes

Book:The Comedians

Source: The Comedians

“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.”

Men Ends Food Taste Essence Available Suits Transcendentalism Essence Of Life

Author:Sai Baba

“In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.”

Ends Feet Food Lays Slave Libertarian Libertarianism

Book:Grand Inquisitor

Source: Grand Inquisitor

“Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end.”

Ends Food Involved Mountain Approach Rivers Appeals Chemicals Discovering Farming Pathways Boundless Organic Farming

Book:The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, 2nd Edition

Source: The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, 2nd Edition

“Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks.”

Giving Ends Loses Memories Walks Tree Sky Food Giving Up Eating Green Drinking Evening Remembered Delightful Sabbath Supper Eating And Drinking Green Trees

Book:The Promised Land

Source: The Promised Land

“Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill.”

“Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.”

Looks Ends Stories Magic Food Healthy Sorry Bullets Letting You Go

Book:Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America

Source: Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America

“He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.”