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“Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.”

Different Sky Food Green Cooking Culinary Cheese Pastures

Author:Italo Calvino

“Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.”

America Grows Half Sky Food Constitution England Murder Cooking Mere Climate Nervous France Culinary Temperament Brighter Delicacy Owing Cookbook Receipts

Book:American Woman's Home

Source: American Woman's Home

“Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks.”

Giving Ends Loses Memories Walks Tree Sky Food Giving Up Eating Green Drinking Evening Remembered Delightful Sabbath Supper Eating And Drinking Green Trees

Book:The Promised Land

Source: The Promised Land

“Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.”

Culture Four Sea Sky Food Tables Cooking Legs Culinary Airplane Submarines

Author:Amanda Bennett

“Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the sky or a sort of saliva of the stars, or the moisture of the air purging itself, nevertheless it brings with it the great pleasure of its heavenly nature. It is always of the best quality when it is stored in the best flowers.”

Found Stars Pleasure Quality Air Tree Sky Food Flower Cooking Dawn Heavenly Culinary Honey Nevertheless Moisture Perspiration Purging Saliva

Author:Pliny the Elder

“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”

Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843

“I convinced him his luggage had gone to that big Bermuda Triangle in the sky.”

Humor Bigs Funny Gone Sky Food Humorous Convinced Airline Triangles Luggage Air Travel Bermuda Bermuda Triangle

Author:Erma Bombeck