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“Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.”

“A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.”

Water Food Cold Taste Cooking Wine Meat Culinary Olives Cold Water

Book:Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra

Source: Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra

“Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.”

Has Beens Water Clear Food Terrible Cooking Chosen Substance Poison Culinary Alcoholics Washing Liquid Drop Of Water Muddle Absinthe

Author:Alfred Jarry

“Brandy and water spoils two good things.”

Two Water Food Cooking Good Things Culinary Spoil Brandy

Author:Charles Lamb

“Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.”

Giving May Two Choices Water Food Give Me Hot Cooking Add Tongue Tea Culinary Pot Milk Baths Toasts Butlers Nightingales Caviar Truffles

Book:Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia

Source: Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia

“My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!”

Light Earth Water Fire Magic Air Food Taste Glory My Family Weight Cooking Our Family Meat Dry Culinary Wet Masculine Wheat Seductive Velvet Airy Flour Stout Dumplings

Author:Robert P. T. Coffin

“I don't drink water. Have you seen the way it rusts pipes?”

Way Water Food Drink Pipe Rust Drink Water

Author:W. C. Fields

“It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.”

Water Food Add Elsewhere Soup Potatoes Unhealthy

Book:Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book

Source: Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book

“The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men.”

Men Heart Water Food Cooking Culinary Mint

Author:John Gerard