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“At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."”

Said Next Accepting Food Sitting Tables Size Enormous Pity Gentleman Host Factories Glances Casting Sausage

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.”

Knows Should Years May Night Next Food Theory Six Seven Dinner Kitchen Conventions Potatoes Seven Years Dieting

Author:Lois Wyse

“Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.”

Next House Deals Doors Food Eating Smell Washing Steam Pudding Copper Cookery

Book:A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories

Source: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories

“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.”

Life Inspirational Next Sleep Food One Day Eating Drinking Procrastination Better Life New Day Eating And Drinking

Author:Og Mandino

“I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.”

Men Way May Funny Three Next Individual Cases Food One Day Six Humorous Average Meals Statistics Good Day Good Way Way To Live

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.”

Thinking Men Mind Turns Next Food Healthy Eating Dinner Benevolent Eating Good

Book:Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval

Source: Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval

“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

“In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.”

Years Next Animal Food Health Ten Plant Bounds Substitutes Vegetarian Toxic Nutrition Protein Nutrients Healthy Eating Biochemistry Year One Animal Food

Author:T. Colin Campbell

“The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.”

Next Generations Food Duty Cooking Culinary Next Generation Transmit

Author:Fernand Point

“A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.”

Has Beens Next Numbers Quality Food Cooking Culinary One Time Preparing Salad Tomatoes Aphrodisiac

Author:Jane Grigson

“An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.”

May Different Next Food Adventure Cooking Eggs Culinary The Next One

Author:Oscar Wilde

“One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.”

Doe Whole Next Food Standing Cooking Spots Culinary Appetite Desks Comrade Standing Alone

Author:Leonid Brezhnev