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“Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger.”

Science Food Turkeys Steak Hamburgers Hyenas Carrion Buzzards

Book:The New Dietetics, what to Eat and how: A Guide to Scientific Feeding in Health and Disease

Source: The New Dietetics, what to Eat and how: A Guide to Scientific Feeding in Health and Disease

“In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.”

“There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New York steak.”

Wells Born New York Food Cooking Abundance Culinary Freak Crave Steak

Author:Gael Greene

“The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.”

Food Winter Smell Evening Settling Steak Settling Down

Author:T. S. Eliot

“My favorite animal is steak.”

Life Animal Food Eating Cooking My Favorite Culinary Steak

Author:Fran Lebowitz

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

Men Needs Sometimes Food Red Meat Steak Funny Food Red Meat

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”

“Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?”

“To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.”

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.”

Men Life Giving Funny Teach Food Cooking Lifetime Fishes Culinary Artificial Shortage Steak Teach A Man To Fish

Author:Jay Leno

“When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms. And we feed it to livestock. So we can eat a steak? Am I the only one who sees this as a crime? Every morsel of meat we eat is slapping the tear-stained face of a starving child. When I look into her eyes, should I be silent? The Earth can produce enough for everyone’s need. But not enough for everyone’s greed.”

“Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.”

People Thinking Knows Country Bigs Earth Wonder Boys Food Ought Cooking Glad Meat Culinary Plates Other Countries Bloody Beef Steak Hunk

Author:Kurt Vonnegut