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“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”

Source: The affluent society

“Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state.... Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old?”

Persons Two States Enjoy Simple Practice Food Theory Thousand Pure Cooking Bread Diets Meals Culinary Articles Simplest Two Days Staples

Book:The Young Housekeeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery

Source: The Young Housekeeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery

“Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.”

States Religion Food Cooking Culinary Sauce Mayonnaise

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.”

Source: Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches

“The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.”

Source: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

“In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.”

“I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.”

Knows Art States America Culture Black United United States Food Cooking Russia Bread Hotel Culinary Vodka Food Love

Author:Isadora Duncan

“It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.”

States Character Moral Wife Food Regret Ten Husband Faithful Dozen Ducks Moral Character

Author:Isabella Beeton

“Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.”

Doe States Nations Food Cooking Regions Culinary Texas Dishes Indigenous Arrivals

Author:Alistair Cooke

“In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.”

States Pain Purpose Pleasure Food Eating Hunger Enjoyment Republic Plato

Book:Choice Cuts

Source: Choice Cuts

“The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United States in complex, puke-inducing holding patterns.”

States Humor Able Funny United United States Food Humorous Complexes Patterns Flight Layers Protective Airline Missiles Dense Delayed Air Travel Puke

Author:Dave Barry