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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

“They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.”

Should Mind Firsts Lasts Sea Food Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Swim Thrice Claret

Author:Jonathan Swift

“the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.”

Sea Food Cards Menus Lobster Shack

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.”

Way Whole Causes Moral Sea Food Cooking Fishes Lifestyle Variety Realms Culinary Prime Stomach Decline Dishes Adaptation Extravagant Tasty Shellfish

Author:Pliny the Elder

“Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.”

Sun Clear Cutting Sea Food Huge Essence Cooking Surface Setting Bitter Settings Rising Culinary Smooth Lemons Illuminating Membranes

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.”

Sea Food Cooking Culinary Sailor

Author:Janet Flanner

“The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.”

Real Sea Food Cooking South Native Culinary

Author:Victor Hugo

“The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.”

Kind Sea Food Trust Rivers Cooking Sticks Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Culinary Seafood Eyeballs Fins

Author:Dave Barry

“Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.”

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

Source: The Hemingway Collection