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“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

“The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.”

Food Winter Smell Evening Settling Steak Settling Down

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!”

Beautiful Food Evening Soup Alice Adventures In Wonderland

Author:Lewis Carroll

“I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.”

Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

“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.”

“I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.”

Years Morning Food Twenties Plant Evening Tea Meals Fascinating Midnight Solace Drinkers Hardened Shameless Kettles Infusion Tea Time Tea Drinking

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.”

Way Food Regard Dinner Evening

Author:Art Buchwald

“I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.”

Knows Littles Helping Care Sleep Food Cooking Folks Evening Help Me Culinary Bourbon

Author:Lillian Gordy Carter

“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”

People Reason Running Able Levels Class Watches Break Morning Food News Fats Get Up Evening Dawn Racing Cheese Bicycle Goats Calories Expenditures Stationary Aerobics

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.”

Girl Food Dresses Cooking Evening Culinary Coats Dining Caviar

Book:La bonne table

Source: La bonne table