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“Raisins are a thing that lasts, they come in small boxes, and you always feel like eating raisins, even at six in the morning. A raisin is always an appropriate snack.”

Feels Lasts Morning Food Six Eating Boxes Appropriate Snacks Raisins

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.”

Thinking World Feels Universe Food My Family Cooking Insecurity Culinary Ritual Threatening Family And Friends Feeding Novelty Fast Paced Saturated

Author:Nigella Lawson

“The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.”

Feels Food Cooking Best Things Culinary Virtuous Liver

Book:The Lonely Guy: And, The Slightly Older Guy

Source: The Lonely Guy: And, The Slightly Older Guy

“You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.”

Feels Sometimes Pieces Food Cooking Bread Culinary Wet Damp Bread And Butter Cucumbers Handkerchiefs

Author:Compton Mackenzie

“A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen.”

Feels Poor Food Cooking Ignorant Treated Kitchen Potatoes

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.”

People Way Needs Feels Food Beats Cooking Culinary Toys Tease Tease Me

Author:Jeff Smith

“I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.”

Want Feels Should Food Enjoyed Food Love Food Safety Overeating I Love Food

Author:Tyra Banks

“You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!”

Feels May Facts Too Much Food Cooking Snow Culinary Feathers Pastries

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.”

Way Inspirational Feels Humor Today Funny Peace Achieve Food Finished Inner Peace Bags Chocolate Cake Fitness Feel Better Therapists Chocolate Cake Funny Chocolate

Author:Dave Barry

“I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.”

“Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do you want those basic things fixed, you want it done in a really nice, gentle way that makes you feel loved. That's a big desire, and cookbooks say to the person reading them, 'If you will read me, you will be able to do this for yourself and for others. You will make everybody feel better.'”

Ifs Way Want Feels Persons Done Bigs Able Desire Reading Nice Security Food Comfort Hungry Gentle Fixed Feel Better Really Nice Cookbook Where You Live Basic Things

Author:Laurie Colwin

“Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.”

Want Feels Sometimes Food Goddess Pie Baking Postmodern

Author:Nigella Lawson

“Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.”

Way Feels Looks Pain Joy Imagine Food Hatred Guilt Nurturing

Author:Susan Powter

“But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.”

Feels Wells Care Culture Three Stars Food Balance Areas Take Care Decent Belly Exquisite Sour Vintage Carrots Irritation Snob Gourmet Gourmet Food

Author:J. B. Priestley

“I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.”

Feels Night Feet Food Walking Drinking Tongue All Night Muddy Midget

Author:W. C. Fields

“If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?”

Ifs Knows Feels Mean Bits Nice Food Brilliant Feel Good Mates Rubbish Make You Feel Good

Author:Jamie Oliver

“I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.”

Feels Sometimes Food Cooking Culinary Dishes Banner

Author:Kingsley Amis

“After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.”

“To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.”

Needs Feels Night Food Cold Safe Warm Wet Soup

Author:Laurie Colwin

“In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.”

Feels Realizing Animal Food Life Philosophy Cold Becoming Hungry Unhappy Meat Vegetarian Vegan Animal Rights Animal Cruelty Animal Abuse Animal Kingdom Plant Based Diet

Author:Cesar Chavez