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“It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.”

Should Littles Romance Food Cooking Careful Manage Indian Culinary Knives Plates Desirable Elegant Corn Forks Exhibitions Kernel Dainty Ticklish

Author:Charlie Day

“Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.”

Food Cooking Indian Culinary Vegetarian Hunters

Author:Andy Rooney

“I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.”

Kind Three Week Food Indian Good Times Italian Pigs Three Times Pizza Pasta Italian Food Indian Food

Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.”

Men Has Beens Night Existence Food Months Eating Cooking Deny Indian Restaurants Culinary Vegetables Playwright Dining Ethos Curry Asparagus

Author:Peter Ustinov

“Beaten biscuits: This is the most laborious of cakes, and also the most unwholesome, even when made in the best manner. We do not recommend it; but there is no accounting for tastes. Children would not eat these biscuits-nor grown persons either, if they can get any other sort of bread. When living in a town where there are bakers, there is no excuse for making Maryland biscuit. Believe nobody that says they are not unwholesome. . . . Better to live on Indian cakes.”

Ifs Believe Children Persons Made Food Taste Towns Excuse Bread Indian Cake Beaten Accounting No Excuses Bakers Biscuits Maryland

Author:Eliza Leslie

“Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.”

Different Food Sitting British Indian Meals Sitting Down

Author:Roland Joffe

“The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.”

Food Cooking Plant China Tea Indian Culinary Infusion

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

Source: Wealth of Words