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“In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency.”

Men Way House Term Wealth Poor Known Land Food Amount Habit Cooking Stores One Way Guarantees Culinary Wealthy Estates Medieval Peppers Pantry Medieval Times

Author:Waverley Root

“RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.”

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Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.”

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Book:The works

Source: The works

“When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain.”

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Author:Bernard DeVoto

“It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.”

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Book:The Preservation of Youth: Essays on Health

Source: The Preservation of Youth: Essays on Health

“Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.”

Today Known Food Civilization Adequate Food Safety Food Supply Green Revolution

Author:Norman Borlaug

“Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.”

“I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.”

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Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“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

“By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.”

Has Beens Dies Known Food Disease Claims Vegetarian Immune

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.”

Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America