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“Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?”

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Author:Jeff Smith

“For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them.”

People Long I Can Remember Father Food Strange Sticks Saved Rotten Saving Money Cherries Tomatoes Olives Sausage Biscuits Martini Strange Places

Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.”

“Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.”

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Author:Robert Orben

“Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?”

Ifs Knows Remember Food Picks Cooking Kitchen Lambs

Author:Julia Child

“Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.”

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Author:Ferran Adria

“Food was always a conduit in our family for storytelling, and it was a way for us to keep in touch and remember things. We're people that use food to keep each other together and to always cheer us up and make all of our days better.”

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Author:Rachael Ray

“Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.”

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Author:Hilaire Belloc

“You are eating the sea, that's it, only the sensation of a gulp of sea water has been wafted out of it by some sorcery, and you are on the verge of remembering you don't know what, mermaids or the sudden smell of kelp on the ebb tide or a poem you read once, something connected with the flavor of life itself.”

Knows Has Beens Remember Water Sea Food Eating Connected Smell Sensations Tides Flavor Verge Mermaid Sorcery Sea Water

Book:The Oysters of Locmariaquer

Source: The Oysters of Locmariaquer

“Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed over the responsibility for our nourishment to faceless corporations.”

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Author:Lynne Rossetto Kasper

“You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through you say to yourself, I should really wrap this up and save it for tomorrow. But the sandwich is calling you: Remember the taste you just had. So fatty. It's what you want. It's what you are! I've never gotten home from Katz's with a doggie bag in my hand. A pastrami sandwich at Katz's is what's bad and good about food. It's the sacred and the profane.”

Want Should Home Hands Bigs Past Remember Food Tomorrow Calling Taste Eating Sacred What You Want Bags Bowls Wraps Halfway Sandwiches Profane Pickles Fatty Pastrami

Author:Mario Batali

“Children never lie...I remember my daughter standing in her crib the first time I gave her caviar. I put it on bread. She ate it and said, "Encore, Papa."”

Firsts Children Said Remember Lying Food Daughter First Time Standing Bread My Daughter Papa Never Lie Caviar Encores

Author:Jacques Pepin

“Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able to give a just value, which goes well beyond mere economic parameters. We should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the the poor, the hungry!”

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Author:Pope Francis

“The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.”

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Author:Joel Fuhrman

“Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body.”

Body Remember Food Treats Your Body Preserves

Author:Benjamin Ward Richardson