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“I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.”

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Book:The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“for the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of. ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.”

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Book:America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer

Source: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer

“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.”

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Book:What Is Art?

Source: What Is Art?

“To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.”

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Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.”

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Author:Ferran Adria

“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.”

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Author:Eric Schlosser

“The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.”

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Author:Urbain Dubois