“...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.” WayWholeCausesMoralSeaFoodCookingFishesLifestyleVarietyRealmsCulinaryPrimeStomachDeclineDishesAdaptationExtravagantTastyShellfish Author:Pliny the Elder
“By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.” StillsReasonQualityMoralInfluenceFoodUniversalFoundationCookingPropertyIncludingCulinaryPrincipalTribesBeneficialChastityTemperanceLettuce Author:John Evelyn
“To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.” WantBodySpiritualMoralBreakBloodLonelinessCreationFoodShedSacraments Author:Wendell Berry
“Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.” HumansLongHas BeensReasonCausesViewsMoralPrinciplesInfluenceMankindEffectsFoodCircumstancesAimDietsVegetarianAestheticTemperamentObservingVegetarianismVegetarian Diet Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure.” KnowsPhilosophyEyeBitsMoralFoodSafeTablesMediumsWanderSaneBeefDiningMenusEntreesRoast BeefDining Table Book:Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney Source: Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney
“It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.” StatesCharacterMoralWifeFoodRegretTenHusbandFaithfulDozenDucksMoral Character Author:Isabella Beeton
“I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.” MenCountryCharacterAmericaWishPoorMoralFoodBirdOriginalsCookingChosenOur CountryNativeCulinaryLive ByRepresentativesTurkeysEaglesRespectableRobbingMoral CharacterBald Eagle Author:Benjamin Franklin
“Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.” FeelingsReligiousMoralFoodCreaturesCookingGuiltMeatProportionCulinaryRighteousnessSubstitutesVegetarianVeganVegetarianismFurry Author:Bill Griffith