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“I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.”

Young Food Skins Cooking Knives Vegetables Slim Stripping Parsnips

Author:Stevie Smith

“There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole.”

Young Food Oil Aids Soup Ingenious Young Ladies

Book:Complete Nonsense

Source: Complete Nonsense

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”

“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.”

Years Wells Children Has Beens Young Knowing Doubt Food Healthy London No Doubt Nurse Delicious Assured Acquaintance Healthy Children Wholesome Food

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive.”

Young Food Boring Cute Girlfriend Expensive Beef

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

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

“Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.”

“In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.”

Thinking Humans Young Human Beings Food Tables Dining Alone

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.”

“When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.”

Men Inspirational Looks Young Food Tables Cooking Dinner Young Man Culinary Old Man Waitress

Book:Look Eleven Years Younger

Source: Look Eleven Years Younger

“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.”

Men Want Believe Stills Young Forget Food Drinking

Book:The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams