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“Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.”

Wells Doe Law Food Red Wine Fruit Titles Cheese Red Wine

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.”

Sides Food Red Cooking Culinary Apartment Bricks Rope Ceilings Onions Ham Chimneys

Book:The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.”

Pleasure Food Red Window Green Cooking Fruit Colour Shops Culinary Fascinated Orange Violet Luminous Sparkle Jelly Cloudy Kaleidoscope Red Green

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?”

Looks Food Wall Red Cooking Track Meat Culinary Vegetarian Lions Slim Nutritionist Red Meat Hippopotamus

Author:Erma Bombeck

“If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.”

Ifs Food Red Cooking Dinner Culinary Pot Host Bubbles Decline Pale Beans Sumptuous

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)

“I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.”

Men Needs Sometimes Food Red Meat Steak Funny Food Red Meat

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.”

Food Picks Red Argument Cooking Cups Dawn Culinary Wet Dew Berries Red Lipstick

Book:Farming: A Hand Book

Source: Farming: A Hand Book

“There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.”

Doe Born Food Red Claims Liars Socialist Biscuits Lobster Cheddar

Author:Tina Fey

“Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'”

Men Wells Bigs Certain Force Religious Simple Mistake Mankind Food Praying Disease Red Concern Salvation Western Patient Conviction Plenty Belly Ache Indigestion

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“I believe in red meat. I often said: red meat and gin.”

Believe Said I Believe Food Red I Believe In Meat Gin Red Meat

Author:Julia Child

“Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!”

Funny Advice Food Health Eating Red Blue Green Cooking Meat Culinary Eating Food Funny Food Food And Eating Delicious Food Home Cooking Red Meat Fun Food Bad Food

Author:Chi Chi Rodriguez

“There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.”

Men Looks Food Red Cooking Culinary Sheep Pie Raspberries

Author:E. W. Howe

“The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.”

Giving Heart Might White Food My Heart Red Give Me Cooking Apples Friendly Culinary Cows Cream Dessert Tarts Red And White

Book:A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: A Child's Garden of Verses