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“Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.”

Individual Food Cooking Mere Desperate Culinary Chocolate Pale Deprived Solace Bittersweet Euphoria Sufferers Approximation

Author:Sandra Boynton

“Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.”

America Grows Half Sky Food Constitution England Murder Cooking Mere Climate Nervous France Culinary Temperament Brighter Delicacy Owing Cookbook Receipts

Book:American Woman's Home

Source: American Woman's Home

“Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.”

People Made Rooms Food Eating Mere Feminist Meat Vegetarian Vegan Entering Discomfort Raising Awareness

Author:Carol J. Adams

“What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!”

Thinking Food Drink Mere Drinking Alcohol Beer Pauses Liquor Drinking Alcohol Beer Drinking Alcohol Drinking Alcohol And Life Alcoholic Drinks

Author:Lord Byron

“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.”

Body Culture Process Community Animal Food Eating Mere Meals Biology Ritual Real Food

Book:In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“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.”

“All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.”

Men Has Beens Beautiful Song Humanity Given Water Hours Food Color Cooking Mere Alcohol Nine Culinary Beautiful Things Charming Oxygen Symphony Cocktails Hydrogen Martini Tap Water

Author:H. L. Mencken

“In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.”

Mind May Food Genius Institutions Cooking Mere Cups Tea Tunes Grandmother Culinary Afternoon Festivals Repose Domesticity Chinks Afternoon Tea

Author:George Gissing

“Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.”

Doe Enough Facts Age Night Hours Food Thousand Eating Hundred Twenties Cooking Mere Eight Upset Contemplation Fifty Culinary Steady Day And Night Chewing Swallowing

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.”

Whole Food Civilization Cooking Mere Smell Culinary Evoke

Book:Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The structure of everyday life

Source: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The structure of everyday life

“Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able to give a just value, which goes well beyond mere economic parameters. We should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the the poor, the hungry!”

Giving Should Wells Able Remember Used Values Poor Economic Food Waste Tables Mere Hunger Stealing Hungry Throwing Excess Consumerism Parameters

Author:Pope Francis

“It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.”

Made Whole Land Food Ready Mere Meals Coincidence Soup Beans Pork

Book:In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality