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“Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with great expectation battling the cynicism of experience. You sit waiting, wondering about the upcoming moments of revelation. Somewhere in the back of your head is the dour warning that disappointment is inevitable but you don't really believe it or you wouldn't be there. The best eaters are always optimists.”

“If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.”

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Author:Louis Diat

“The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups.”

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Book:Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés

Source: Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés

“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”

“It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.”

“Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.”

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Book:My Life in France

Source: My Life in France

“Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.”

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Author:George Ellwanger

“Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.”

Should Important Government Culture Church Century Food Building Protect Cooking Worthy Traditional Culinary Heritage Cheese Cultural Heritage Baroque

Author:Carlo Petrini

“From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.”

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Author:E. B. White

“A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.”

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Author:Willard Spiegelman

“Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.”

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Author:Daniel Boulud

“Food simply isn't important to me.”

Important Food Food Safety

Author:Alice Paul

“It's important to watch what you eat. Otherwise, how are you going to get it into your mouth ?”

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Author:Matthew Diamond

“Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.”

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Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.”

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Author:Warner LeRoy

“A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.”

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Book:The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset (Unabridged): Collection of six historical novels dealing with politics and romance - Classics of English literature from the author of The Eustace Diamonds, He Knew He Was Right and The Prime Minister

Source: The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset (Unabridged): Collection of six historical novels dealing with politics and romance - Classics of English literature from the author of The Eustace Diamonds, He Knew He Was Right and The Prime Minister

“The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.”

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Author:Joel Fuhrman

“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.”

“17. One of the secrets of successful living is found in the word balance, referring to the avoidance of harmful extremes. We need food, but we should not overeat. We should work, but not make work our only activity. We should play, but not let play rule us. Throughout life, it will be important to find the safety of the middle ground rather than the imbalance of the extremes.”

Source: Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future