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“Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.”

World Firsts Choices Rooms Magic Advice Food Source Cooking Psychological Therapy Kitchen Culinary Juice Bland Cookbook

Author:Thomas More

“In America, even your menus have the gift of language.... The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned to perfection and served in a creamy nest of mashed farm potatoes and strictly fresh garden vegetables. Of course, what you get is cole slaw and a slab of meat, but that doesn't matter because the menu has already started your juices going. Oh, those menus. In America, they are poetry.”

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Author:Laurie Lee

“The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc

Source: The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc

“WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.”

Men Sometimes Christian Next Known Food Cooking Wine Unions Culinary Juice Grapes Liquor Best Gift Rum

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.”

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.”

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Author:William of Norwich

“People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding fresh lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand that there must be a reason for this.”

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Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.”

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Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader