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“Any part of the piggy Is quite all right with me Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma Ham as lean as the Dalai Lama Ham from Virginia, ham from York, Trotters Sausages, hot roast pork. Crackling crisp for my teeth to grind on Bacon with or without the rind on Though humanitarian I'm not a vegetarian. I'm neither crank nor prude nor prig And though it may sound infra dig Any part of the darling pig Is perfectly fine with me.”

May Sound Food Fine Hot Cooking Humanitarian Teeth Culinary Vegetarian Pigs Darling Grind Virginia Pork Ham Sausage Crisps Lama Crank Dalai Piggy Prudes

Author:Noel Coward

“As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.”

“Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.”

Made Sound Food Cooking Rounds Fats Firm Culinary Pigs Ham

Book:Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations

Source: Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations

“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.”

“I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.”

Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

“This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an assassin would be able to cook like this.” “Well, I do get lots of practice with knives. You could say I’m multitasking.” The detective froze, his fork halfway to his mouth. “I’m kidding. I enjoy cooking. It relaxes me.”

Source: Spider's Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book

“My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.”

Kind Seems Past Sound Food Cooking Surface Bridges Kitchen Temples Culinary Significance Mystical Transfers Odor

Author:Pearl Bailey

“Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.”

Men Sound Food Arms Husband Tables Driven Graves Scolding

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.”

Ifs Knows Persons Made Sound Food Planets Crepes

Author:Julie Powell

“From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.”

Needs Humans Heart Littles Important Night Sound Brain Morning Food Hot Cooking Familiar Kitchen Culinary Warmth Wet Human Heart Comforting Sock

Author:E. B. White

“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight”

Sound Water Food Delight Smell Bread Innocence Baking Indescribable Bread And Wine Flowing Water Baking Bread

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said.”

Firsts Said Wisdom Happens Today Lasts Sound Wonder Morning Food Exciting Wake Up Western Taoism Breakfast Like Something Unbelievers Piglet Tao Of Pooh Pooh Piglet

Author:Benjamin Hoff