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“Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.”

Men Past Dies Food Fame Tables Cooking Culinary Farmers Ironic Guests Plates Shifting Corn Crow Fickle Crumbs

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.”

Waiting Minutes Food Cooking Culinary Plates Napkins Flapping

Author:Hugh Casson

“Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.”

Food Cold Speech Green Cooking Appeals Culinary Chickens Plates Dreary Donation Peas Banquets

Author:Bennett Cerf

“Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you must put on your plate. Also it is a great breach of etiquette when your fingers are dirty and greasy, to bring them to your mouth in order to lick them, or to clean them on your jacket. It would be more decent to use the tablecloth.”

Firsts Use Hands Would Be Order Food Mouths Cooking Clean Fingers Careful Dirty Decent Culinary Be Careful Plates Dishes Etiquette Jackets Breach

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.”

Should Littles Romance Food Cooking Careful Manage Indian Culinary Knives Plates Desirable Elegant Corn Forks Exhibitions Kernel Dainty Ticklish

Author:Charlie Day

“Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.”

Food Empty Cooking Rewards Customers Culinary Plates

Author:Jacques Torres

“The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.”

Kind Wife Doors Food Ready Return Cooking My Wife Likes Cooks Generous Culinary Swim Cake Afternoon Plates Session Refrigerators Crabs Sunbathing

Author:Euell Gibbons

“There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'”

Giving Littles Light Food Give Me Tables Cooking Wine Coffee Cups Culinary Breakfast Bottles Cake Plates Grapes Coffee Cup Peaches Sponges Frugal Claret Nectarines

Book:Novels

Source: Novels

“Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!”

Needs Comedy Wonderful Food Plates Sandwiches Spoons

Author:Paul Lynde

“I am a better person when I have less on my plate.”

Persons Food Diets Plates Weight Loss Better Person Dieting Delicious Food Motivational Diet

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?”

Sides Food Anxiety Plates Potatoes Pickles

Author:Robin McKinley

“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart”

Heart Food Cooking Committed Lust Eggs Culinary Breakfast Plates Easter Ham

Book:Letters to an American Lady

Source: Letters to an American Lady

“This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain't normal.”

Stories Journey Food Normal Conscience Folks Legacy Abandon Plates Marvelous Reckless Footprint Sustenance Reckless Abandon

Author:Joel Salatin

“It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.”

Knows Has Beens Food Cooking Fingers Cooks Over It Culinary Plates Funny Food Fresh Food Chefs Cooking Fun Food

Author:Julia Child

“A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."”

Men Said Food Wine Drinking Dinner Alcohol Pushing Plates Accustomed Pills Obliged Dessert Grapes

Book:A Handbook of Gastronomy

Source: A Handbook of Gastronomy

“SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.”

Feelings Food Cooking Culinary Plates Satiety

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.”

Left Half Food Waste Computer Cooking Dinner Culinary Plates Ketchup Half Life Radioactive Waste Dinner Plates

Author:Wes Smith

“The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.”

Mean Enough Too Much Food Bills Cooking Culinary Plates Cuisine

Author:Paul Bocuse

“Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.”

People Thinking Knows Country Bigs Earth Wonder Boys Food Ought Cooking Glad Meat Culinary Plates Other Countries Bloody Beef Steak Hunk

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

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