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“Eggs are very much like small boys. If you overheat them or over beat them, they will turn on you and no amount of future love will right the wrong.”

Ifs Turns Boys Food Amount Beats Cooking Eggs Culinary Turn-on Future Love

Author:Irena Chalmers

“No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs. If hot they are sheer insubstantial broths afloat with seafood. In winter they turn steaming and thick to serve with slabs of rustic, crusty bread.”

Ifs Turns Food Color Summer Seasons Hot Cooking Winter Bread Culinary Thick Dishes Sheer Soup Herbs Seafood Rustic Chilled Pastel Slabs

Author:Florence Fabricant

“This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.”

Thinking Way Want Real Lying Turns Sun Food Huge Waste Tiny Real Life Culinary Metals Pigs Cages Mud Pits Babe Hay Grate

Author:Morley Safer

“When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain.”

Ifs World Believe Heart Ends Turns Lost Hours Known Streets Food Crosses Mark Cooking Evening Vain Culinary Occupation Pauses Pulse Cocktails Strengthening Coma

Author:Bernard DeVoto

“I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen.”

Happens Funny Night Turns Water Food Late Italian Honey Cheese Pasta Refrigerators Italian Food Macaroni Macaroni And Cheese Gatorade

Author:Queen Latifah

“Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.”

Thinking Men Mind Turns Next Food Healthy Eating Dinner Benevolent Eating Good

Book:Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval

Source: Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval

“A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.”

Source: The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig

“As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.”

Long Faces Turns Grows Darkness Food Mines Wind Cold Cooking Autumn Culinary Soup Culinary Love

Author:Leslie Newman

“It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.”

Form Science Turns Energy Water Food Cold Wheels Gas Engines Sunlight Coal Fossils Machinery Automobile Steam Storage Petroleum Windmills Locomotives

Book:The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How

Source: The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How

“That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.”

“The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”

Men Giving Turns Freedom Food Excuse Dinner Invitations

Author:Jules Renard

“The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome”

Enough Together Turns Church Food Fruit Woods Smell Burning Meat Herbs Incense Voluptuous Roasting

Book:Everything tastes better outdoors

Source: Everything tastes better outdoors

“In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.”

Looks Mean Bigs Turns Names Food Wind Chickens Dishes Spain Attempting Dictionary Sandwiches Salad Eels

Author:Dave Barry

“While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.”

Should Spiritual Turns Attention Practice Imagine Food Taste Eating Focused Chosen Feeding Deities Guru Spiritual Practice

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi