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“The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.”

Hard Grief Food Spots Damage Internals Tomatoes

Author:Julia Child

“the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.”

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Author:Nancy Mitford

“Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.”

Wells May Hard Might Wanted Names Food Mass Heavy Bread Ruins Civilized Soup Bricks Short Time Dough Crackers Libel Cookery Babylon Dumplings

Book:Early American Cookery:

Source: Early American Cookery:

“Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”

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Author:Anthony Bourdain

“The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.”

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Book:Animals and why They Matter

Source: Animals and why They Matter

“It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.”

Matter Hard Loss Inspiring Food Citizens Ears Fellows Arguing Nutrition Belly Weight Loss

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

“If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.”

Ifs Giving Hard Food Faults Slave Commit Teeth Fists Biscuits Cookery

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably -why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work -for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?”

People Ifs Thinking Men Should Hard Done Peace Food Deserve Should Have Rewards Corners Hardest Hardship Supper Hard Days

Book:Moby-Dick: An authoritative text

Source: Moby-Dick: An authoritative text

“What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.”

Ifs World Kind Long Hard Facts Food Hot Cooking Add Certainty Mathematical Settling Thick Soup Puzzles Comforting Flour Sure Thing Crosswords Hard Days

Author:Nora Ephron

“My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.”

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Author:Nora Ephron

“Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.”

Ifs Wells Hard Reason Done Justice Company Food Eating Diets Divided Accustomed Coarse Hermits Frugal

Book:Selected Writings: 1913-1926

Source: Selected Writings: 1913-1926

“The planes are crowded and noisy and late, and everybody hates everybody. If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the flights I've been on lately, we passengers would have swiftly beaten them to death with those hard rolls you get with your in-flight meals.”

Ifs Hard Humor Funny Hate Food Late Humorous Terrorist Flight Planes Meals Beaten Crowded Airline Passengers Noisy Air Travel

Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits