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“the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.”

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Author:Nancy Mitford

“She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.”

“Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.”

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Book:The works

Source: The works

“TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.”

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Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.”

Feels Sometimes Pieces Food Cooking Bread Culinary Wet Damp Bread And Butter Cucumbers Handkerchiefs

Author:Compton Mackenzie

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

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Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”

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Author:Carl Sandburg

“Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.”

“Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.”

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Author:Nigella Lawson

“WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.”

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Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.”

Feels Sometimes Food Cooking Culinary Dishes Banner

Author:Kingsley Amis

“In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no Never.”

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Author:Ellie Krieger

“Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle.”

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Author:Louis Pullig De Gouy

“He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.”

“OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.”

Men Giving Sometimes Given Poor Food Civilization Shells Oysters Shellfish

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”