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“What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would fix it. He would cook it down, condense it-this broth with all sorts of feet in it, then it would gell into sheer bliss. It kept me alive once for three weeks when I was ill as a child. And I've always craved it since.”

Children Mother Three Strong Easy Alive Week Feet Food Cold Cooking Ill Chinese Cooks Bliss Culinary Chickens Thick Sheer Jelly

Author:James Beard

“I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.”

Stills Feet Food Hundred Cooking Restaurants Culinary Metamorphosis Feet Off The Ground

Book:American fried; adventures of a happy eater

Source: American fried; adventures of a happy eater

“The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.”

“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

“The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.”

People Trying Children Speak Language Force Feet Food Drink Wine Smell Culinary Sarcastic Coward Cheese Snail Slugs Sissy Baboons

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“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

“Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."”

Source: A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander

“From time immemorial, soups and broths have been the worldwide medium for utilizing what we call the kitchen byproducts or as the French call them, the 'dessertes de la table' (leftovers), or 'les parties interieures de la bete', such as head, tail, lights, liver, knuckles and feet.”

Has Beens Light Culture Party Feet Food Tables Mediums Kitchen Tails Soup Liver Knuckles Leftovers Utilizing

Author:Louis Pullig De Gouy

“I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times the vitamins of a bushel of beans.”

Running Four Feet Food Cooking Apples Culinary Truck Dessert Beans Vitamins Cabbage Lettuce

Author:S. J. Perelman