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“I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.”

Death Dies Saws Food Thousand Eating Hundred Hunger Nutrition Poor Richard

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!”

Years Made Stills Dream Enjoy Half Food Hundred Discovery Pressure Stores Kingdoms Pity Atmosphere Abundance Dishes Globes Traveler Lap Unborn Minerals Importation

Book:A Handbook of Gastronomy

Source: A Handbook of Gastronomy

“How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?”

Kind Two Different Nations Food Six Hundred Forty Different Kinds Cheese

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.”

Food Hundred Cooking Destructive Culinary Drunkenness Gluttony

Book:Directions for Invigorating and Prolonging Life; Or, The Invalid's Oracle ...

Source: Directions for Invigorating and Prolonging Life; Or, The Invalid's Oracle ...

“EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.”

Stills Religious Five Food Thousand Members Hundred Sacred Cooking Culinary Controversy Disputes Sects Eucharist Religious Sects

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with... Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.”

Giving Food Taste Hundred Raises Cooking Bread Culinary This Day Soup Filling Sauce Spoons Pasta Stew Gravy Raise Up

Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.”

Want Wells Eye Order Food Taste Hundred Cooking Meals Culinary Cents

Author:Marie-Antoine Careme

“I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.”

Stills Feet Food Hundred Cooking Restaurants Culinary Metamorphosis Feet Off The Ground

Book:American fried; adventures of a happy eater

Source: American fried; adventures of a happy eater