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“Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.”

Facts Food Taste Mouths Smell Noses Laboratory Chimneys Composites Taste And Smell

Book:The Physiology of Taste

Source: The Physiology of Taste

“England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quantity, and the land that will grow wheat is absolutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena... I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turned into plenty... The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries, awaiting the genius of chemists.”

“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

“If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Hands Food Mouths Cooking Glasses Shoulders Culinary Too Short Elbows

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.”

Writing Moments Hands Pleasure Talking Food Fine Mouths Cooking Culinary Throat Delicious Strawberries Nectarines

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.”

May Together Food Eating Mouths Dinner

Author:Mason Cooley

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.”

Long Food Mouths Cooking Culinary Food Safety

Author:Franz Kafka

“In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.”

Too Much Food Mouths Breaths Cooking Culinary Soup Filling Lifting Spoons

Author:Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

“Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.”

“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