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“A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.”

Men Trying Wells Use Might Rich Food Fine Drink Cooking Coffee Bread Tea Culinary Cake Pie Tobacco Pork Chaste Flour Condiments

Book:Plain Facts for Old and Young

Source: Plain Facts for Old and Young

“Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.”

Ifs Trying Culture Food Produce Empty International Excellent Substitutes Cigar Stumps Matchboxes

Author:Norman Douglas

“Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat”

Way Trying Speak Simple Common Food Rhetorical

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!”

People Trying Inspiration Fun Mistake Advice Food Cooking Fearless Cooks Having Fun Recipes Learn From Your Mistakes Fun Food Cooks In The Kitchen

Book:My Life in France

Source: My Life in France

“Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”

Knows Want Trying Hard Mystery Rocks Food Eating Fishes Humble East Locals France Meat Mexico Sincerely Provinces Mcdonalds Cafes Stew Want To Travel Kitchen Confidential Hard Rock

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.”

Trying Asks Food Willingness New Things Static Experimentation Repetitive

Book:Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

“The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.”

People Trying Children Speak Language Force Feet Food Drink Wine Smell Culinary Sarcastic Coward Cheese Snail Slugs Sissy Baboons

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.”

Trying Company Practice Food Industry Very Good Criticize Mislead Tobacco Fast Food Good Company Food Industry Good Food Good Company Tobacco Industry

Author:Eric Schlosser

“That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible”

Trying Bigs Grows Goal My Own Food Mines Food Safety

Author:Daryl Hannah

“Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.”

Men Trying Funny Food Fats Dieting Fat Man Thin Man

Author:Kingsley Amis

“America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true. Many try, but just as Americans don't make good gigolos, nether do they make good gourmets.”

Trying Character America Order Land Food Healthy Appetite Reverse True Man Gourmet American Character Gigolo

Author:Ludwig Bemelmans

“People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding fresh lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand that there must be a reason for this.”

People Ifs Trying Years Firsts Has Beens Reason Food Eating Cooking Culinary Potatoes Juice Limes Cooking And Eating

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader