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“Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!”

Children Eye Father Food Cooking Dear Culinary Sparkling Good Nature Bowels

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.”

Love Feelings Friendship Food Cooking Filled Culinary Bitterness Champagne Beef Sparkling Drinking Champagne Champagne Drinking Roast Beef Roast Chicken

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.”

Ifs Purpose Enjoy Party Food Laughter Humorous Sarcastic Host Sole Champagne Taxi Sparkling Enjoy Yourself Cocktail Parties Party Invitations

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.”

Food Conversation Bitter Culinary Bitterness Crisps Sparkling Lettuce Fresh Food Cooking And Eating

Book:The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner

“My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.”

“On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.”

Knows Food Fine Hot Depth Comforting Aunt Stairs Virginia Jars Trout Sparkling Cellars Pickles Hot Days

Author:Thomas Jefferson