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“Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.”

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Author:Kathryn Hughes

“The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.”

Real Sea Food Cooking South Native Culinary

Author:Victor Hugo

“This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.”

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Author:Morley Safer

“A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.”

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Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“I can't believe it! A real gourmet kitchen, and I get to watch!”

Believe I Can Real Watches Food Kitchen Gourmet

Author:Loic Remy

“What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!”

People Love Ideas Real Interest Food Meetings Enjoyed Something New Good Food Sharing Ideas

Author:Jamie Oliver

“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”

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Author:Julia Child

“Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.”

Real Food Cooking Culinary Substitutes Real Things

Author:Walt Kelly

“When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.”

Real Moments Enjoy Pleasure Food My Friends Real Life Being Real Ice Cream

Author:Monica Bellucci

“A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.”

Real Eye Food Tears Sweet Cooking Grandmother Culinary Bites Georgia Backyards Sweaters Peaches Orchard Fluent Great Grandmother Flannels

Book:Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction

Source: Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction

“A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.”

Needs Real Self Given Food Cooking Filled Culinary Caution Gourmet Gourmet Food

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time.”

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Author:Alma Guillermoprieto