"There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves."
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"To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar."
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"As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat."
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"Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic."
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"That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund."
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"God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them."
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"Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks."
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"Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top."
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"Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast."
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"All sorrows are less with bread."
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"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
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"How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we go to bed."
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"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
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"Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most."
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"Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes."
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"There's no sauce in the world like hunger."
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"Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame."
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"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
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"I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience."
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"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
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