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“Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.”

Might Father Given Sides Born Taken Streets Food Lessons Cooking Lips Deny East Torture Fancy Restaurants Touched Culinary Italian Captains Joints Manhattan Sauce Tomatoes Waiter East Side Capri

Book:Third Helpings

Source: Third Helpings

“He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.”

Given Food Fellows Cooking Train Culinary Sandwiches Garlic Frenchmen

Book:The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: Memories and impressions

Source: The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: Memories and impressions

“It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.”

Men Given Poor Half Virtue Food He Man Cold Cooking Wine Dinner Culinary Consolation Private Life Cardinals Entrees

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.”

Years Firsts Would Be Found Given Community Food Cooking Culinary Regulation Printed Childbirth Poland Bagels

Author:Leo Rosten

“The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.”

Given Food Cold Cooking Winter Excellent Culinary Preservation Infant Great Success Whisky Smallpox Highlander Winter Cold

Author:Tobias Smollett

“Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best medicine when it has the best moderation to direct it. Wine was given to restore the body's weakness, not to overturn the soul's strength.”

Soul Body Might Given Food Weakness Direct Cooking Wine Medicine Culinary Sober Moderation

Book:A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church

Source: A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church

“...a mind, if given only the best food never craves any other.”

Ifs Mind Reading Given Food Crave Best Food

Book:A woman of fifty

Source: A woman of fifty

“Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.”

Art Form Given Creative Food Expression Cooking Prepared Fast Food Creative Expression

Author:Jeff Smith

“I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs. There are few sights that appeal to me more than the streaks of lean and fat in a good side of bacon, or the lovely round of pinkish meat framed in delicate white fat that is Canadian bacon. Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.”

Ifs Long Said Would Be Lasts Choices Given Sides White Morning Food Sight Cooking Rounds Smell Coffee Lovely Fats Appeals Meat Meals Eggs Culinary Delicate Streaks Framed Brewing Frying

Author:James Beard

“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

“All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.”

Men Has Beens Beautiful Song Humanity Given Water Hours Food Color Cooking Mere Alcohol Nine Culinary Beautiful Things Charming Oxygen Symphony Cocktails Hydrogen Martini Tap Water

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.”

Thinking Bigs Given Can Do Company Food Cooking Bread Developing Culinary Vegetables Onions

Author:Robert Orben

“If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.”

Ifs Given Food Cooking Wine Culinary Lunch Champagne

Author:Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons

“If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.”

Source: The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

“A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.”

Needs Real Self Given Food Cooking Filled Culinary Caution Gourmet Gourmet Food

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.”

Body Given Food Originals Down And Cooking Soil Wilderness Culinary

Book:Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

“OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.”

Men Giving Sometimes Given Poor Food Civilization Shells Oysters Shellfish

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.”

Doe Given Accepting Food Slave Stomach Digestion Ayurveda

Author:Emile Souvestre

“It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.”

Way Mind Done Body Care Given Attention Food Exercise Eating Function Cooking Drinking Dull Culinary Eating And Drinking Bodily Functions Dull Minds

Author:Epictetus

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