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“But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt... we dispatched it with great expedition.”

Source: MOBY-DICK (WITH NOTES)(BIOGRAPHY)(ILLUSTRATED): OR, THE WHALE

“The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat”

Seems Food Sweet Cooking Culinary Glances Wheat Cocktails Amorous

Author:Frank Muir

“The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary's! Ah!”

Made Food Sweet All Things Cooking Preserves Ems Culinary Mary Spares Aunt Jam Sour Cherries Peaches Jelly Pears Pickles Cinnamon Marmalade Quince

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley

“The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.”

Lasts Food Sweet Taste Cooking Sunset Culinary Sweetest Beautiful Sunset Sun Setting

Author:William Shakespeare

“Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else.”

Kind Light Food Sweet Taste Paris Characteristics Pushing Yellow Pale Baking Mushrooms Muffins Pale Yellow

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.”

Night Food Sweet Bed Dresses Tables Cooking Culinary Warmth Orange

Author:Jacques Prevert

“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.”

“Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.”

Food Sweet Taste Prove Eating Sour Digestion Good Digestion

Author:William Shakespeare

“Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.”

Way Together Perfect Magic Food Sweet Cold Mouths Bread Bites Crisps

Author:Ruth Reichl

“Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.”

Knowledge Food Sweet Cooking Culinary

Book:The Defence of Poesy

Source: The Defence of Poesy

“Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.”

Ifs Love Beautiful Food Sweet Bounds Hiding Beautiful Women Sauce Barbecue Hiding Something Barbecue Sauce Perfect Food

Author:Lyle Lovett

“Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'”

Said Food Sweet Cooking Alcohol Culinary Bottles Plato Potatoes Sweet Potatoes

Book:OWEN WISTER Ultimate Collection: Historical Novels, Western Classics, Adventure & Romance Stories (Including Non-Fiction Historical Works): The Virginian, The Promised Land, A Kinsman of Red Cloud, Lady Baltimore, Lin McLean, Red Man and White, The Dragon of Wantley, Padre Ignacio, Philosophy 4, The Jimmyjohn Boss…

Source: OWEN WISTER Ultimate Collection: Historical Novels, Western Classics, Adventure & Romance Stories (Including Non-Fiction Historical Works): The Virginian, The Promised Land, A Kinsman of Red Cloud, Lady Baltimore, Lin McLean, Red Man and White, The Dragon of Wantley, Padre Ignacio, Philosophy 4, The Jimmyjohn Boss…

“At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.”

Giving Water Morning Food Sweet Comfortable Alcohol Contrary Thirst Comforting Headache Refreshing Taverns Claret Marseille

Book:Roundabout Papers (from the Cornhill Magazine): To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon

Source: Roundabout Papers (from the Cornhill Magazine): To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon

“Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.”

Actors Food Sweet Breaths Dear Onions Garlic

Book:A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format

“A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.”

Real Eye Food Tears Sweet Cooking Grandmother Culinary Bites Georgia Backyards Sweaters Peaches Orchard Fluent Great Grandmother Flannels

Book:Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction

Source: Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction

“Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.”

Food Sweet Cooking Bitter Fancy Culinary Bitterness Chewing

Book:The works of William Shakespeare

Source: The works of William Shakespeare

“Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.”

White Food Sweet Meat Brown Aviation Grey Airline

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.”

People Food Sweet Diets Chocolate Fries Caviar French Fries American Diet French Love

Author:Cameron Diaz

“Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on them until they were ready to be turned. A cheerful brown, they were, with tracings of darker brown. And the kitchen was full of the good sweet smell of them.”

Littles Food Ready Sweet Hot Rose Smell Kitchen Brown Cake Thick Cheerful Pitcher Volcanoes Tracing

Author:John Steinbeck

“All worries are less with wine.”

Book:Wealth of Words

Source: Wealth of Words