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“To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.”

Perfect Family Nice Food Normal Smell Bread Exaggeration

Book:The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”

Thinking Nice Food Judging Rain Cooking Fishes Culinary Wet

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing surprise. Well, the child did like Clover. In fact, she held him and cooed. When the parents turned around to look at her and saw their child holding a furry, living creature, they needlessly panicked.”

Wells Looks Children Facts Parent Saws Nice Food Baby Couple Creatures Surprise Hungry Delightful Soothing Living Creatures New Baby Furry Clovers

Author:Obert Skye

“Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do you want those basic things fixed, you want it done in a really nice, gentle way that makes you feel loved. That's a big desire, and cookbooks say to the person reading them, 'If you will read me, you will be able to do this for yourself and for others. You will make everybody feel better.'”

Ifs Way Want Feels Persons Done Bigs Able Desire Reading Nice Security Food Comfort Hungry Gentle Fixed Feel Better Really Nice Cookbook Where You Live Basic Things

Author:Laurie Colwin

“What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something nice to eat.”

Mean Doe Art Knowledge Economy Nice Modern Food Fine Cooking Fruit Grandmother Culinary Chemistry Hospitality Spices Herbs Cookery Arabian Great Grandmother Calypso Medea

Author:John Ruskin

“The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.”

Choices Culture Differences Class Nice Food Bears Cooking Prepared Ill Dare Culinary Analogies Delicacy Gourmet Gourmet Food

Book:Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections

Source: Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections

“If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?”

Ifs Knows Feels Mean Bits Nice Food Brilliant Feel Good Mates Rubbish Make You Feel Good

Author:Jamie Oliver

“On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt."”

Nice Food Cooking Eggs Blunt Egg Rolls

Author:Coolio