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“A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"”

Country Would Be Pleasure Sea Food Directors Fishes Contribution Midst Cheer Sigh Alas Turkeys Appointments Indirect Connoisseur Good Cheer Truffles

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“I love simple food. I like to serve the entire animal, not only because it somehow provokes a customer to think about it, but also because to honor of the animal that has been killed for us to eat, you have to eat the whole thing. It would be silly to just eat the chops and throw everything else away.”

Thinking Has Beens Whole Would Be Simple Animal Food Honor Customers Silly Provoking Being Silly Simple Food

Author:Mario Batali

“Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.”

People Mind Wells Would Be Hell Food Eating Cooking Average Size Likes Japan Serving Bent Suitable Supplements Cuisine Fries Japanese Food French Fries Hostesses

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you must put on your plate. Also it is a great breach of etiquette when your fingers are dirty and greasy, to bring them to your mouth in order to lick them, or to clean them on your jacket. It would be more decent to use the tablecloth.”

Firsts Use Hands Would Be Order Food Mouths Cooking Clean Fingers Careful Dirty Decent Culinary Be Careful Plates Dishes Etiquette Jackets Breach

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.”

Years Firsts Would Be Found Given Community Food Cooking Culinary Regulation Printed Childbirth Poland Bagels

Author:Leo Rosten

“The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.”

Should Wells Would Be Destiny Morning Food Ultimate Cooking Spite Culinary Delay Frost Geese

Book:The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.”

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

“Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants - a whole menagerie - and if my family had a crest, you know what would be on it? A blintze. I mean it. All the good things in my life are measured in blintzes because by us it's not a party if there isn't a blintze.”

People Ifs Knows Mean Whole Would Be Party Family Food My Family Good Things Lions Elephants Tigers Unicorn Menagerie

Author:Gertrude Berg

“Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.”

Made Would Be Economy Food Materials Cooking Culinary Dishes Poorest Discarded Extravagance Cookery Tramps Tasty Continental Good Cook Whitechapel

Book:In Darkest England and the Way Out

Source: In Darkest England and the Way Out

“I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs. There are few sights that appeal to me more than the streaks of lean and fat in a good side of bacon, or the lovely round of pinkish meat framed in delicate white fat that is Canadian bacon. Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.”

Ifs Long Said Would Be Lasts Choices Given Sides White Morning Food Sight Cooking Rounds Smell Coffee Lovely Fats Appeals Meat Meals Eggs Culinary Delicate Streaks Framed Brewing Frying

Author:James Beard

“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.”

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

Source: The Hobbit

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”

“This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an assassin would be able to cook like this.” “Well, I do get lots of practice with knives. You could say I’m multitasking.” The detective froze, his fork halfway to his mouth. “I’m kidding. I enjoy cooking. It relaxes me.”

Source: Spider's Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book

“Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.”

Would Be Happiness Easy Difficult Food Difficulty Cooking Culinary Temperance Abstinence

Author:Samuel Johnson

“We all eat & it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.”

Would Be Opportunity Food Waste Cooking Fresh Food Delicious Food

Author:Anna Thomas

“Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.”

Life Wells Persons Would Be Food Simplicity Simple Life Simple Living Food Safety Living A Simple Life Raising Money

Author:Frank A. Clark

“Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.”

Inspiration Would Be Sports Darkness Food Cooking Chaos Ice Culinary Hockey Cream Fabulous Ice Cream Dessert Home Cooking Sweets And Desserts Dessert First

Author:Don Kardong

“A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.”

“I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It's just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Firsts Humor Would Be Funny Pieces Food Humorous Traveler Airports Airline Suitcases Luggage Dummy Air Travel

Author:Erma Bombeck