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“England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quantity, and the land that will grow wheat is absolutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena... I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turned into plenty... The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries, awaiting the genius of chemists.”

“But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.”

Giving Mean Food England Cooking Culinary Beans

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.”

Food England Cooking Warm Islands Streams Culinary Swimming Beef Gravy

Book:Stories

Source: Stories

“Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.”

America Grows Half Sky Food Constitution England Murder Cooking Mere Climate Nervous France Culinary Temperament Brighter Delicacy Owing Cookbook Receipts

Book:American Woman's Home

Source: American Woman's Home

“Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.”

“It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.”

Thinking Firsts May Walks Food England Bent

Book:With Malice Toward Some

Source: With Malice Toward Some

“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.”

Ifs Want Wells Three Food England Nationalism Breakfast

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.”

People Food England Tables Cooking Manners Culinary Continents Good Manners Good Food Table Manners

Author:George Mikes

“Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.”

People Given Support Food Horse England Cooking Culinary Grain Scotland Oats

Author:Samuel Johnson