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“It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite... fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel.”

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Author:Arne Garborg

“The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate whether fried, baked, broiled or even eaten raw will form the foundation of a great garden industry.”

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Author:Robert Johnson

“I get way too much happiness from good food.”

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Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.”

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Book:Shocking Life

Source: Shocking Life

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

Source: The Hobbit

“Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.”

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Book:My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”

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Author:Craig Claiborne

“In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance.”

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Author:Ellie Krieger

“Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.”

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Author:Susan Powter

“Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.”

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Author:John Thorne

“Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.”

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Book:Shocking Life

Source: Shocking Life

“In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no Never.”

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Author:Ellie Krieger

“Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.”

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Author:Frederic Mistral