"Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning."
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"A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows."
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"Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness."
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"You don't have to transcend something that you have no interest in... it may come but it finds no food."
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"Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking."
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"Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die."
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"Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent."
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"It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!"
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"There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking."
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"A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar."
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"I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din."
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"Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe."
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"Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of the most exacting professions. They must be blessed - or cursed, whichever way you care to look at it - with what is called the artistic temperament, which means that if they are to act or cook at all well, it cannot be for duds or dummies."
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"Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life."
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"Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour."
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"God made only water, but man made wine."
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"He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else."
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"But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning."
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"Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat."
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"Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you."
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